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Archive Sleuth
Hosted by Georgina Asfaw · EN
A show for anyone with a love for fascinating, half-forgotten stories from history. Georgina Asfaw applies her detective skills gained over a decade of sleuthing inside archives large and small around the world to bring lesser-known stories of the past to light. True stories of murder, crime, love, adventure, and the odd pirate or two. These are stories that open windows onto human experience, society, and culture at different moments in history, and that reveal the extraordinary in ordinary lives.
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A Nun in the French Revolution
Feb 24, 202200:28:56Tap to summarizeIn this episode, my hunt through British Library manuscripts unearthed the letters of an English nun who lived in Paris at the height of the French Revolution. Her letters provide vivid descriptions of the fall of the Bastille and other momentous moments in history, and an insight into the private life, thoughts and friendship of an 18th century nun.Archive Sleuth is available on all major podcast apps. Subscribe at https://shows.acast.com/archive-sleuth. For news on future episodes, please follow the show on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook.Resources:British Library, Add MS 30002: CORRESPONDENCE relating to France, including many letters from English nuns at Paris and elsewhere, and particulars concerning the French Revolution. 1779-1799. Folios 27-35; 38-39; 42-47; 50-51.Who were the nuns?, a database resource from Queen Mary University London.Music:Waltz of Treachery by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4606-waltz-of-treachery License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseLa Marseillaise (French National Anthem) by Angelshhttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Anonymous_Choir/Hector_Berliozs_La_Marseillaise/La_Marseillaise_French_National_AnthemO bone Jesu (CG Reissiger) by Les Petits Chanteurs de Montignyhttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Les_Petits_Chanteurs_de_Montigny/Compilation_classique/13_-_O_bone_Jesu_CG_ReissigerSonatina in C Minor by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4393-sonatina-in-c-minor License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/archive-sleuth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Scandal in High Society Part 2
Feb 10, 202200:27:25Tap to summarize1910. A woman waits in Rome for her divorce to go through the courts, and for her lover to return to her from his diplomatic posting in Tehran. The man’s Foreign Office superiors have gone to extraordinary and so far futile lengths to split the couple up. But now rumours abound that the man has changed his mind, and no longer wishes to marry. Could this really be true?Archive Sleuth is available on all major podcast apps. Subscribe at https://shows.acast.com/archive-sleuth. For news on future episodes, please follow the show on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook.Resources:FO 1093/113: Sir Coleridge Kennard, Diplomat: Involvement in Divorce Case. The National Archives, UK. Available online in Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War from Coherent Digital.Additional background research on the British Newspaper Archive. Yoi Maraini’s article on Mussolini:https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19240405/370/0015 Any infringement of copyright is unintended.Music:Waltz of Treachery by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4606-waltz-of-treachery License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseSonatina in C Minor by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4393-sonatina-in-c-minor License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/archive-sleuth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Scandal in High Society
Feb 3, 202200:25:57Tap to summarizeIn Edwardian London, a married mother falls for a fashionable young diplomat. As he begs her to run away across Europe with him, the Foreign Office take a very keen interest in their affair. Archive Sleuth is available on all major podcast apps. Subscribe at https://shows.acast.com/archive-sleuth. For news on future episodes, please follow the show on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook.Resources:FO 1093/113: Sir Coleridge Kennard, Diplomat: Involvement in Divorce Case. The National Archives, UK. Available online in Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War from Coherent Digital.Additional research on the British Newspaper Archive.Any infringement of copyright is unintended.Music includes:Waltz of Treachery by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4606-waltz-of-treachery License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseSonatina in C Minor by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4393-sonatina-in-c-minor License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/archive-sleuth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →The letters of Mrs Middleton
Jan 27, 202200:27:27Tap to summarizeIn this episode, discover the letters of a woman who could have stepped out of the pages of a Jane Austen novel. It is 1805. At the height of the Napoleonic Wars, Susannah Middleton travels overseas for the first time. She attends balls, dines with officers, and gossips about her acquaintances. But her letters also reveal the darker truths of this much romanticised society.Archive Sleuth is available on all major podcast apps. Please do rate and review! Subscribe at https://shows.acast.com/archive-sleuth. For news on future episodes, please follow the show on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook.Resources:Susannah Middleton’s letters are held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Items referenced in this episode are MDT/1 to MDT/12.https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/archive/rmgc-object-490301Any infringement of copyright is unintended.Music includes:Waltz of Treachery by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4606-waltz-of-treachery License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseOminous by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4162-ominous License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Scully’s Reel. Mrs Mcleod’s. Cooley’s Reel. by Slainte.https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Slinte/Cup_of_Tea/slainte_-_07_-_scullys_reel_mrs_mcleods_cooleys_reel Sonatina in C Minor by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4393-sonatina-in-c-minor License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/archive-sleuth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Mary Blandy and the patricidal poisoning part 3
Jan 20, 202200:33:46Tap to summarizeIn the final episode of Mary Blandy's story, Mary stands trial for murdering her father. She pleads not-guilty, and devotes herself to convincing the public that she was a naïve woman, cruelly deceived by her fiancé into believing a fatal poison was a love potion. Was she believed?Archive Sleuth is available on all major podcast apps. Subscribe at https://shows.acast.com/archive-sleuth. For news on future episodes, please follow the show on Twitter and Instagram.Resources:https://archive.org/details/b30452843/page/n5/mode/2up.https://archive.org/details/missmaryblandys00conggoog/page/n5/mode/2up https://data.historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/view?pubId=ecco-0595400900&pageId=ecco-0595400900-20 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1750-01-01/1799-12-31?basicsearch=mary%20blandy&somesearch=mary%20blandy&retrievecountrycounts=false# Music:Waltz of Treachery by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4606-waltz-of-treachery License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseOur Story Begins by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4181-our-story-begins License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseOminous by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4162-ominous License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseRelent by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4274-relent License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseSonatina in C Minor by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4393-sonatina-in-c-minor License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/archive-sleuth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Mary Blandy and the patricidal poisoning part 2
Jan 13, 202200:25:52Tap to summarizeHenley, 1750: Mary Blandy is determined to marry her dashing fiance Captain Cranstoun, whatever the price. Even if the price of love is committing murder. This is episode two of the story of Mary Blandy and the patricidal poisoning.Archive Sleuth is available on all major podcast apps. You can subscribe at https://shows.acast.com/archive-sleuth. For news on future episodes, please follow the show on Twitter and Instagram.Resources used:The tryal of Mary Blandy, spinster; for the murder of her father, Francis Blandy, Gent. At the assizes held at Oxford for the county of Oxford, on Saturday the 29th of February, 1752. https://archive.org/details/b30452843/page/n5/mode/2up.Miss Mary Blandy's own account of the affair between her and Mr. Cranstoun : from the commencement of their acquaintance in the year 1746 to the death of her father in August 1751, with all the circumstances leading to that unhappy event : to which is added an appendix containing copies of some original letters now in possession of the editor, together with an exact relation of her behaviour whilst under sentence, and a copy of the declaration signed by herself in the presence of two clergymen two days before her execution: https://archive.org/details/missmaryblandys00conggoog/page/n5/mode/2up Capt. Cranstoun’s account of the poisoning the Late Mr Francis Blandy, of Henley upon Thames, Oxfordshire: https://data.historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/view?pubId=ecco-0595400900&pageId=ecco-0595400900-20 Articles on the British Newspaper Archive via a search for ‘Mary Blandy’ between 1750 and 1799: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1750-01-01/1799-12-31?basicsearch=mary%20blandy&somesearch=mary%20blandy&retrievecountrycounts=false# Music:Waltz of Treachery by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4606-waltz-of-treachery License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseRelent by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4274-relent License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Sonatina in C Minor by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4393-sonatina-in-c-minor License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/archive-sleuth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Mary Blandy and the patricidal poisoning
Jan 6, 202200:26:12Tap to summarizeOxford Castle, 1751: Mary Blandy awaits trial on the charge of murdering her own father. She protests her innocence, saying she was duped by her charming yet deceitful fiancé into unintentionally killing her father. Was she telling the truth? Had Mary been duped? Or was this the last throw of the die by a calculating murderer? In episode one, Mary falls in love with a dashing army officer, but soon finds obstacles stand in the way of a happy ever after.Archive Sleuth is available on all major podcast apps. Subscribe at https://shows.acast.com/archive-sleuth. For news on future episodes, please follow the show on Twitter and Instagram.Resources used:https://archive.org/details/b30452843/page/n5/mode/2uphttps://archive.org/details/missmaryblandys00conggoog/page/n5/mode/2uphttps://data.historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/view?pubId=ecco-0595400900&pageId=ecco-0595400900-20 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1750-01-01/1799-12-31?basicsearch=mary%20blandy&somesearch=mary%20blandy&retrievecountrycounts=false# Music:Waltz of Treachery by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4606-waltz-of-treachery License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseOur Story Begins by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4181-our-story-begins License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Sneaky Snitch by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4384-sneaky-snitch License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Ominous by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4162-ominous License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Sonatina in C Minor by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4393-sonatina-in-c-minor License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/archive-sleuth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Introducing Archive Sleuth
Jan 1, 202200:02:20Tap to summarizeWelcome to Archive Sleuth! In this mini-episode, learn about the brand new history podcast that will uncover half-forgotten stories from history and reveal the extraordinary in ordinary past lives.Archive Sleuth will be available to listen and subscribe on all major podcast apps. You can also subscribe at https://shows.acast.com/archive-sleuth. For news on future episodes, please follow the show on Twitter and Instagram.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/archive-sleuth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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