19 episodes
No Heathen Land Sally Hughes
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Hello, and a very warm welcome to No Heathen Land a podcast retelling macabre, intriguing and just plain weird stories of the past from God’s own Country, Yorkshire.
In my opinion, Yorkshire is the perfect breeding ground for the most weird and wonderful tales. In Yorkshire we have the rolling vast countryside of the dales, dark tangled woodlands, remote backroads but also industry, hard labour, a history of staunch religion, faming, tight knit communities, immigration, a welcoming attitude, intolerance, riots…much of this documented, a vast amount not. It’s the stories in-between the newspaper headlines that I really want to get into - through my experience in working in Local History it’s really quite surprising how many odd tales you come across simply looking into one single person’s family history for example, a newspaper article, a diary entry, a theatre playbill, a photograph. I’m very lucky to have made friendships and connections with interesting and enthusiastic people right here in Yorkshire, each episode will feature one of them as a very special guest where we will delve into some of the stories we’ve come across that have fascinated, baffled and sometimes unnerved us.
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Season 2 Episode 7 - Yorkshire Day Dracula
Happy Yorkshire Day from No Heathen Land.
To celebrate, best friend of the podcast Ross Horsley is back to discuss all things Dracula and Whitby!
Dracula By Bram Stoker, 1897
Room 13 By Robert Swindles, 1989
Follow @October_Country_ for some beautiful, gothic photography and accompanying thoughtful words
Films and TV discussed:
Nosferatu (1922) https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220303-nosferatu-the-monster-who-still-terrifies-100-years-on
Dracula (1931) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021814/
Dracula (1958) Hammer https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051554/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Dracula (1974) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070003/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_56_act
Count Dracula (1977) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075882/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Dracula (1979) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079073/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103874/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Dracula (2013) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2296682/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Dracula (2020) BBC/Netflix https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9139220/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
The Barghest O'Whitby by My Dying Bride (2011)
Extras:
Wharram Percy Deserted Medieval Village
Bodies mutilated to 'stop dead rising' : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-39477005
Yellow Face by R F Kuang (2023)
Podcast Twitter: @noheathenland
My Instagram: @noheathenland
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Season 2 Episode 6 - Mary Bateman 'The Yorkshire Witch'
Welcome to No Heathen Land.....
This episode my guest is the wonderful Storyteller, Actor, Theatre Producer and all round fascinating human Matthew Bellwood.
Matthew tells me the story of the infamous 'Yorkshire Witch' Mary Bateman, con-woman extraordinaire, apparent kleptomaniac and ultimately, murderer!
Links to sources used in this episode:
The Extraordinary Life and Character of Mary Bateman, the Yorkshire Witch
Gale MOML Print Editions, Trials Collection 1600-1926
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths In Leeds
David Goodman, Warncliffe Books, 2003
Bloody British History: Leeds
Richard Smyth, The History Press, 2013
Criminal Leeds: From earliest records to 1879
Steven Burt (I can't seem to spot any publishing details for this pamphlet - maybe it's in the library catalogue?)
The Yorkshire Witch: The Life and Trial of Mary Bateman
Summer Strevens, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2017
The Ballad of Mary Bateman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04lmJOw46NM
Links to Matthew's work:
About Matthew https://somestories.co.uk
Audio walks:
Stirring up the Past - https://www.stirringupthepast.org/
A Garden Through Time - https://www.365leedsstories.org/maps/map-19/
A Walk In The Park - http://www.aquietword.co.uk/park/
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Season 2 Episode 5 - The wild world of Antiquarians
Welcome to No Heathen Land, Season 2 Episode 5 with Antony Ramm.
In this episode Antony tells me all about Leeds Antiquarians of the 17th and 18th Century and the weird and wonderful items they collected and documented.
Three brilliant blog posts by Antony about Antiquarians:
https://secretlibraryleeds.net/2018/08/10/a-brief-history-of-leeds-antiquarians-part-1/
https://secretlibraryleeds.net/2019/06/07/a-brief-history-of-leeds-antiquarians-part-ii/
https://secretlibraryleeds.net/2019/08/30/a-brief-history-of-leeds-antiquarians-part-iii/
Follow me on Instagram and/or Twitter @noheathenland.
A bit more about the Ducatus Leodiensis:
https://secretlibraryleeds.net/collections-treasures/collections/the-antiquarian-collection/the-thomas-wilson-collection/ducatus-leodiensis-2/
https://secretlibraryleeds.net/2016/02/17/ralph-thoresby-and-the-ducatus-leodiensis-a-curated-display/
William Boyne:
https://secretlibraryleeds.net/collections-treasures/collections/the-antiquarian-collection/the-william-boyne-collection/boynes-grangerised-history-of-leeds/
https://secretlibraryleeds.net/2018/05/11/william-boyne-and-the-voices-of-history/
https://secretlibraryleeds.net/collections-treasures/collections/the-antiquarian-collection/the-william-boyne-collection/
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Season 2 Episode 4 - Milner Field (with team Hwaet!)
A very Happy New Year and a warm welcome to No Heathen Land, the first episode of 2023.
This is a very exciting episode with Bunty May Marshall and George Parr, the creative couple behind the folklore zine Hwaet! Amongst so many other things! Bunty and George cover so much in this episode, all of which I could fit in is linked below.
I hope you enjoy listening to this episode as much as I enjoyed recording it!
Bunty's art and commission info : https://www.buntymaymakes.com
Hwaet! Zine: https://www.hwaetzine.co.uk
Astral Noize Zine: https://astralnoizeuk.com
Fantomes Zine: https://fantomeszine.com
Waiting for You : A Detectorists Zine
Book : Milner Field - The Lost Country House of Titus Salt Jnr by Richard Lee-Van den Daele and R David Beale
Creative Stories by James and Victoria Wall
Creative Stories - Feat. Bunty May Marshall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3PloKtzqoM
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Season 2 Episode 3 - The Battle of Wakefield: Hot Takes and Tangents
Welcome to No Heathen Land...
This episode I'm joined by friend and fellow Librarian Josh Flint. Josh shares his amazing knowledge of the Battle of Wakefield which took place on 30th December 1460. I hope you enjoy Josh's enthusiasm as much as I did.
Books mentioned:
(Refs for Local Studies and Research at Leeds Libraries)
The Military Campaigns of the Wars of the Roses by Philip A. Haigh (942.04 HAI)
Wakefield and Towton: War of the Roses by Philip A. Haigh (Y 942.04 HAI)
Blog posts:
Research guide to Yorkshire Battles by Josh Flint
Yorkshire Battles: Battle of Wakefield, 1460 by Josh Flint
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Season 2 Episode 2 - 'Stang Do'
Welcome to No Heathen Land.
Season 2 Episode 2 is with Poet and Librarian Matthew Hedley Stoppard where we discuss the public punishment procession Riding the Stang...
For more on Matthew click here!
BUY The Garland King
Old-time Punishments, (1890) by William Andrews available as reference only from the Local History and Research department in Leeds Central Library, ref. Y364.6 AND
Helen Mort and link to The Illustrated Woman
Latest news on sharing pornograhpic deepfakes becoming illegal in England and Wales
Fun stuff at the end:
Film: Pamfir (2022)
Music: The Watersons and Conjurer
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