Season 1, episode 4: January 19th - March 30th 1879. Reflecting on Jane's background in Handsworth Sheffield, where Ingrid discovers how two sisters ran two pubs with a small army of female relatives, and then working out the mystery of how someone nearly succeeded in breaking Fred and Jane up by sending a malicious valentine.<a rel="payment" href="https://ko-fi.com/mylovelettertimemachine">Support the show</a>

Season 1, episode 4: January 19th - March 30th 1879. Reflecting on Jane's background in Handsworth Sheffield, where Ingrid discovers how two sisters ran two pubs with a small army of female relatives, and then working out the mystery of how someone nearly succeeded in breaking Fred and Jane up by sending a malicious valentine. Support the show

Season 1, episode 4: January 19th - March 30th 1879. Reflecting on Jane's background in Handsworth Sheffield, where Ingrid discovers how two sisters ran two pubs with a small army of female relatives, and then working out the mystery of how someone nearly succeeded in breaking Fred and Jane up by sending a malicious valentine.<a href="https://ko-fi.com/mylovelettertimemachine" rel="noopener noreferrer">Support the show</a>

Two sisters, and The Vinegar Valentine

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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