Season 2 Episode 6 - Mary Bateman 'The Yorkshire Witch'
No Heathen Land
English - June 23, 2023 15:54 - 1 hour - 121 MBHistory Society & Culture history yorkshire horror true crime Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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