We learn more about how difficult life in 'the slums' of Derby could be, as Hannah and William fight to survive... literally.

What other shady practices will our friends on Willow Row be involved in next?

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Our guests finally learn about the incident involving their 2nd great grandmother, that the newspapers labelled 'Shocking Immorality'.

Fights, assaults, infidelity, drunkenness and even disorderly houses... the story of Hannah Bates continues in the West End of Derby in the 1880s.

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If you lived in the West End of Derby in the 19th century, you were considered to live in the slums. It was in these conditions that Hannah Bates was born and lived most of her life. Her life story may not have been heroic, but it was fascinating all the same.

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A newspaper article titled, 'Alleged Outrage by a Walsall Man', led to the discovery of an interesting couple living in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire in the late 1800s. In part 2, we continue to throw some 'sidelights on low life' and explore the circumstances of two less-than-fortunate people. This episode focuses on the life of the so-called 'Walsall Man', Samuel Hartshorne.

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A newspaper article titled, 'Alleged Outrage by a Walsall Man', led to the discovery of an interesting couple living in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire in the late 1800s. This episode throws some 'sidelights on low life' and explores the circumstances of two less than fortunate people. Were they really so outrageous?

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In 1863, a rural village in Essex made news all over the world after some of its inhabitants took part in a ‘witch trial’ of sorts. What happened that summer night at the Swan Inn in Sible Hedingham? Who was accused of practicing witchcraft and why? How would it all end?

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In about 1875, newlyweds William Diaper and Mary Ann Risby left Lavenham to settle in Bramford. This episode discusses what life may have been like for the Diaper family in rural Suffolk and how it may have been affected by events happening at the time.

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The Craik family lived at 107 River Street, Brechin from around 1881 to at least 1955. In that time, the family encountered births, marriages, neighbourhood disputes, bureaucracy, domestic violence, mental illness, deaths and many, many floods. Was this family really as respectable as they appeared?

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Thomas and Eliza Playle had been married 20 years when an event occurred that 'created much excitement' in the usually quiet village of Little Baddow, Essex, that became 'a fertile subject of gossip among the parishioners'. What happened? And what role did this couple play in the proceedings?

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The Whittaker family story takes another tragic turn... What lay in store for Edwin’s son, and fellow shoemaker, Samuel Whittaker after his father’s demise? And, what was Samuel’s role in the crime known as "one of the most fiendish" in the criminal history of Cambridge, Massachusetts?

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