Episode 11. Content Warning: descriptions of domestic violence in the second half of this episode. Discovering how the global depression effected Sheffield and if Fred still had a job, and finding out how Janie’s sister Emma had to go to the Houses of Parliament to get a divorce so she could be freed from her abusive husband.<a rel="payment" href="https://ko-fi.com/mylovelettertimemachine">Support the show</a>

Episode 11. Content Warning: descriptions of domestic violence in the second half of this episode. Discovering how the global depression effected Sheffield and if Fred still had a job, and finding out how Janie’s sister Emma had to go to the Houses of Parliament to get a divorce so she could be freed from her abusive husband. Support the show

Episode 11. Content Warning: descriptions of domestic violence in the second half of this episode. Discovering how the global depression effected Sheffield and if Fred still had a job, and finding out how Janie’s sister Emma had to go to the Houses of Parliament to get a divorce so she could be freed from her abusive husband.<a href="https://ko-fi.com/mylovelettertimemachine" rel="noopener noreferrer">Support the show</a>

Trouble at the steel mill, and divorce at Westminster

Shortlisted for the International Women's Podcast Awards 2024, 2023 + 2022, and the Independent Podcast Awards 2023.&nbsp; "Ingrid Birchell Hughes presents a charming take on family history via the love letters of her great-great-grandparents Fred and Jane, who exchanged 200 of them between their meeting and their marriage in Victorian Yorkshire. It’s a terrific insight into the lives of two witty working-class people and the times they lived in." — The Times.&nbsp; This is a true story, a love story, a family drama, all contained within Victorian social history. Ingrid has both sides (extremely rare) of a correspondence spanning 1878 to 1882 that her great great grandparents sent one another. They were ordinary folk, trying to make their way in the world, first in the city of Sheffield and later in the town of Middlesbrough. There is a whole 'cast' of characters too from Fred's industrial innovator of a boss who advanced the steel making process - and took Fred with him, to Jane's sister Emma, who had her life splashed across the newspapers through no fault of her own. Against the background of the dramas going around them, Fred and Jane overcame family objection to their match and through their own will and determination, made a new life together.

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Shortlisted for the International Women's Podcast Awards 2024, 2023 + 2022, and the Independent Podcast Awards 2023.  "Ingrid Birchell Hughes presents a charming take on family history via the love letters of her great-great-grandparents Fred and Jane, who exchanged 200 of them between their meeting and their marriage in Victorian Yorkshire. It’s a terrific insight into the lives of two witty working-class people and the times they lived in." — The Times.  This is a true story, a love story, a family drama, all contained within Victorian social history. Ingrid has both sides (extremely rare) of a correspondence spanning 1878 to 1882 that her great great grandparents sent one another. They were ordinary folk, trying to make their way in the world, first in the city of Sheffield and later in the town of Middlesbrough. There is a whole 'cast' of characters too from Fred's industrial innovator of a boss who advanced the steel making process - and took Fred with him, to Jane's sister Emma, who had her life splashed across the newspapers through no fault of her own. Against the background of the dramas going around them, Fred and Jane overcame family objection to their match and through their own will and determination, made a new life together.

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