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No Heathen Land

20 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago -

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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Episodes

Season 2 Episode 8 -Yule

December 24, 2023 21:49 - 11 minutes - 21.2 MB

Merry Seasonal Time! A short little hello from me here in No Heathen Land. I hope you enjoy this short and sweet episode of three festive readings from newspaper cuttings from the Edwin Hick collection in Leeds Libraries: The Hick Collection : [collections of newspaper cuttings on various subjects collated by Edwin Hick of Leeds] Shelfmark: SRF 942.81 HIC [The poem Yule-Tide is undated, but i beloeve it is late 19th/early 20th Century ('God Save the Queen' referring to Queen Victoria, ...

Season 2 Episode 7 - Yorkshire Day Dracula

August 01, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 103 MB

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...

Season 2 Episode 6 - Mary Bateman 'The Yorkshire Witch'

June 23, 2023 15:54 - 1 hour - 121 MB

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 & Sus...

Season 2 Episode 5 - The wild world of Antiquarians

March 24, 2023 20:40 - 1 hour - 129 MB

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/...

Season 2 Episode 4 - Milner Field (with team Hwaet!)

January 31, 2023 22:12 - 1 hour - 148 MB

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: ...

Season 2 Episode 3 - The Battle of Wakefield: Hot Takes and Tangents

December 30, 2022 15:46 - 58 minutes - 119 MB

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: ...

Season 2 Episode 2 - 'Stang Do'

November 26, 2022 19:35 - 38 minutes - 76.3 MB

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 il...

Season 2 Episode 1 - Hallowe'en Hauntings (Part 2)

October 30, 2022 11:25 - 52 minutes - 108 MB

Part 2 of 2 Happy Hallowe'en, No Heathen Land Friends! First episode of Season 2 is with friend of the podcast Ross Horsley. We each discuss three hauntings in this episode The episode is split into two, but all links will be below in both episode descriptions. Book: Haunted Yorkshire by Nick Tyler (I use this for everything)! 30 East Drive: http://www.30eastdrive.com/happenings/ http://www.30eastdrive.com/today/ Video: 'Ghost Dimensions' investigate 30 East Drive https://www.youtu...

Season 2 Episode 1 - Hallowe'en Hauntings (Part 1)

October 30, 2022 11:24 - 42 minutes - 88.5 MB

Part 1 of 2 Happy Hallowe'en, No Heathen Land Friends! First episode of Season 2 is with friend of the podcast Ross Horsley. We each discuss three hauntings in this episode The episode is split into two, but all links will be below in both episode descriptions. Book: Haunted Yorkshire by Nick Tyler (I use this for everything)! 30 East Drive: http://www.30eastdrive.com/happenings/ http://www.30eastdrive.com/today/ Video: 'Ghost Dimensions' investigate 30 East Drive https://www.yout...

Season 2 Trailer

October 19, 2022 17:56 - 59 seconds - 2.09 MB

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Episode 10 - Stay away from the water...

July 18, 2022 16:56 - 49 minutes - 94.9 MB

Hip Hip Hooray! For No Heathen Land, Episode 10! I'm thrilled you're here, thank you for listening. EXTRA CONTENT WARNING: Some of the stories in the episode include details of suicide, nothing in depth but please be aware if this is not for you, skip this episode. In this episode I chat with digital creative and local historian Shaun Page (@Warehouse606). We discuss the perils of Yorkshire waterways from the mid 1800s - the late 1930s, inspired by a huge index of newspaper articles Shau...

Episode 9 - Four guinea pigs, one racoon, a bear pit and loads of bread

May 30, 2022 20:07 - 47 minutes - 98.9 MB

Welcome one and all the No Heathen Land. This episode is a chat with Leeds Librarian extraordinare, Helen Skilbeck. Helen takes us through the construction and subsequent deconstruction of two very different but equally as iconic lost Leeds oddities; The Botanical and Zoological Gardens and the bread arch on Commercial Street. Both stories are full of intrigue, mystery, animals, charity and are both pretty weird and very short lived! You can find photos of the 'bear pit' from the long l...

Episode 8 - What is Mocking Me Within These Woods?!

May 02, 2022 16:46 - 46 minutes - 89.2 MB

Welcome to No Heathen Land, Episode 8 This episode is a chat with my best friend of over 30 years Claire Hill. This episode we cover the mysterious ghostly sightings on the Stocksbridge Bypass in South Yorkshire. Sources used for this episode are below: Stocksbridge Bypass – Britain’s Most Haunted Road? - Weird World (weird-world.net) How Sheffield's notorious Stocksbridge bypass was tamed by technology - YorkshireLive (examinerlive.co.uk) Sights of a medieval monk and two ghost childr...

Episode 7 - Witchy Wanderings

March 30, 2022 19:15 - 19 minutes - 38.8 MB

Welcome to Episode 7 of No Heathen Land. This episode I'm all alone, but with goods to share nontheless. This episode I share three interesting newspaper cuttings from a collection compiled by Edwin Hick about Witchcraft, these specifically relate to Witchcraft in Yorkshire, of course. I hope you enjoy this short but sweet episode from me, do tweet me @noheathenland I'd love to hear from you. The book consulted in todays episode is: MSS on Witches and Witchcraft (1930s) - handwritten ma...

Episode 6 - Dirty Dick Turpin

February 27, 2022 20:14 - 49 minutes - 93.7 MB

Welcome back to No Heathen Land. My guest for Episode 6 is my most treasured Librarian pal, Rhian Isaac. Rhian is Special Collections Librarian for Leeds Libraroes and I'm happy to say a good friend of mine too. Rhian's dedication and enthusiasm for her work is admirable and I really think she has such an exciting job and she brings a personal passion to it! In this episode we discuss notorious highwayman Dick Turpin, fron his beginnings to his frankly horrifying deeds across the countr...

Episode 5 - Halloween in Retrospect

January 13, 2022 19:54 - 1 hour - 97.8 MB

Welcome back to No Heathen Land. Sure...it's now almost 3 full months since Halloween, but it's always spooky season around these parts so I hope you enjoy this chat with returning guest Ross Horsley. In this episode Ross shares his top 10 (!) spooky stories with a Yorkshire connection, and I share three newspaper articles containing varying degrees of spookiness! For those who would like to read any of the books Ross mentions in this episode, they are: The Old Nurse’s Story (1852) by Ei...

Episode 4 - St George's Field

October 31, 2021 11:08 - 45 minutes - 92.1 MB

Welcome to No Heathen Land, Episode 4 I hope you've enjoyed Halloween month, but round here, it's always kinda spooky. I'm delighted to share this chat with you, with artist and researcher Morticia. Morticia researches and creates artworks on culture and customs surrounding death and mourning; in this episode she guides me through the history of St George's Field in Leeds, a cemetery set up in 1833, now encased by the University of Leeds campus. Morticia also highlights the headstones of t...

Episode 3 - Bramhope Tunnel: Conquering the Ridge

October 02, 2021 12:42 - 1 hour - 138 MB

In this episode my pal and Senior Librarian for Local Studies and Research in Leeds Libraries Louise Birch, takes us on a tumultuous journey through the construction of the Bramhope Railway Tunnel. Louise wrote an excellent blogpost condensing the research in 2019 : https://secretlibraryleeds.net/2019/04/26/bramhope-tunnel-conquering-the-ridge/ Leeds photograph archive Leodis, has several images of the tunnel: Front view: https://www.leodis.net/viewimage/134195 Memorial structure: htt...

Episode 2 - Murder at the Malt Mill

August 21, 2021 20:28 - 41 minutes - 80.8 MB

Welcome back to No Heathen Land. In this episode I talk to my friend Josh Flint about a scandalous murder in Armley, Leeds in 1856 Sources Josh mentioned/ used for his research: Armley Through the Ages, The Armley Society, 1983: https://leeds.ent.sirsidynix.net.uk/client/en_GB/libraryonline/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:14365/one?qu=armley+through+the+ages&te=ILS   Leeds Intelligencer, 13th September 1856 Leeds Mercury, 13th September 1856 Leeds Times, 2...

Episode 1 - Old Sal

July 22, 2021 19:03 - 1 hour - 117 MB

Welcome to the first episode of No Heathen Land, thank you so much for listening. This episode Sally shares a terrifying 1970s story of demonic possession and guest, Ross, tells a spooky tale set on the atmospheric Woodhouse Ridge in Leeds Follow No Heathen Land on Twitter www.twitter.com/noheathenland Episode 1 References and Links Sally: The True Crime Enthusiast Blog and Podcast Last Podcast on the Left Episode 338: Murderous Possession - The Story of Michael Taylor The Quantum M...

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