Ingrid Birchell Hughes

My Love Letter Time Machine - Victorian History

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Shortlisted for the International Women's Podcast Awards 2024, 2023 + 2022, and the Independent Podcast Awards 2023. "Ingrid Birchell Hughes presents a charming take on family history via the love letters of her great-great-grandparents Fred and Jane, who exchanged 200 of them between their meeting and their marriage in Victorian Yorkshire. It’s a terrific insight into the lives of two witty working-class people and the times they lived in." — The Times. This is a true story, a love story, a family drama, all contained within Victorian social history. Ingrid has both sides (extremely rare) o...

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Ingrid Birchell Hughes

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Two sisters, and The Vinegar Valentine 02.01.2022 22:26

Season 1, episode 4: January 19th - March 30th 1879. Reflecting on Jane's background in Handsworth Sheffield, where Ingrid discovers how two sisters ran two pubs with a small army of female relatives, and then working out the mystery of how someone nearly succeeded in breaking Fred and Jane up by sending a malicious valentine. Support the show

Christmas 1878, and Fred rings in 1879 with some scarily optimistic resolutions 27.12.2021 19:17

Season 1, episode 3: This week we take a look at what Fred was up to during the Christmas of 1878 and the New Year 1879, which he helpfully recorded for us in the dairy he kept when he was 19. We get to take a deep dive into how Fred saw himself and look at one of the most ambitious sets of new year’s resolutions Ingrid has ever read. Instagram: @mylovelettertimemachine Twitter: @1ngi Email: myl...

1878 A bereavement, and the World's first electrically lit football match 27.12.2021 18:44

Season 1, episode 2: October 4th - December 22nd 1878. Ingrid talks about how we can read someone's emotional state from the tiniest clues, Fred loses a family member, how Sheffield hosted a world's first, and how Fred and Jane resort to seeing each other in secret. Instagram: @mylovelettertimemachine Twitter: @1ngi Email: mylovelettertimemachine@gmail.com Producer: Ingrid Birchell Hug...

Summer 1878, in which we meet Fred, and Jane gets into trouble 27.12.2021 24:16

Season 1, Episode 1: In which Ingrid first introduces the 200 love letters she inherited spanning 1878 to 1882, and we discover how Fred and Jane met in Bowden Houstead Woods in Sheffield, and got off to a rather rocky start to their courtship. Instagram: @mylovelettertimemachine Twitter: @1ngi Email: mylovelettertimemachine@gmail.com Producer: Ingrid Birchell Hughes Support the show