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IPSWICH HISTORY PODCAST EPISODE 8

DICKENSIAN IPSWICH

In this episode I go on a history tour with Mike Garland from the Ipswich Tour Guides Association to look at locations in the town that feature in the works of Charles Dickens. We also talk about some other notable places in Ipswich that Dickens visited during his trips to the town.

Here are some photographs of the locations discussed in the episode:

St. Clement’s Church
Ragged School
Christ Church on Tacket Street
The Great White Horse Hotel
The Cornhill

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IPSWICH HISTORY PODCAST EPISODE 2

Episode 2 – 17th Century Ipswich and the East Anglian Witch-Hunts

In the year 1645 the biggest witch-hunt in English history got underway and East Anglia was at its grim centre. Hundreds of people were hanged in East Anglia during the following few years after being put on trial for alleged crimes of witchcraft. However, one woman named Mary Lackland who lived in Ipswich was sentenced to the especially extreme sentence of being burned for her purported crimes.

In this episode of the podcast I speak to David Jones about his book The Ipswich Witch, Mary Lackland and the Suffolk Witch Hunts.

We talk about what life would have been like for people living in 17th century Ipswich, David’s ideas about what may have led to Mary Lackland’s trial and execution, methods used by witch-finders to test for the innocence or guilt of the accused, and what might have been behind the emergence of witch-trials at such an extreme level during the 1640s.

The podcast is available on iTunes, Spotify and most other podcast providers. If you don’t have access to a device with a podcast app you can also listen by following this linkĀ listen to the Ipswich History Podcast