Ye Olde Guide

Ye Olde Guide is a podcast about the history of English towns and cities.

A superbly preserved Georgian resort town owing its existence to unique geology, Bath is one of the most visited cities in England.  We will explore its incredible architecture and much more including :

• How the city provided creative scenery throughout the ages, from Saxon poetry, to Jane Austen, Thomas Gainsborough and Les Misérables;
• The event in Bath that provided the blueprint for the British coronation ceremonies to this day;
• The first discovery of a new planet in a Bath back garden.

And of course the unique buildings that form the most complete surviving Georgian city, and how they came to be.

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Ye Olde Guide is a podcast about the history of English towns and cities.

In this episode we’re alighting at Swindon. 

In the first category Culture, we’ll discover England’s first lending library and the industrial pop album inspired by Swindon’s railway heritage.

For Politics & War we’ll hear about prisoners of war, and how a Swindon institution inspired the foundation of the NHS.

In Science & Industry, we’ll discover Swindon’s place in railway history and how the railway works literally created the modern town.

For Urban Heritage, the remarkable, multifunctional preservation of Swindon’s railway heritage.

And yes, we will be talking a lot about trains in this episode as well as giving our all-important scores in each category.  Let us know what you think of the podcast and check out the website companion yeoldeguide.com.  But now all aboard and journey with us to Swindon.

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Ye Olde Guide is a podcast about the history of English towns and cities.

In this episode we’re uncovering the hidden history of Reading, Berkshire. 

We'll discuss Oscar Wilde’s imprisonment, Jane Austen’s school and one of the oldest popular music festivals in the world. We’ll uncover the lost burial place of an English King, and the only major battle in the last successful invasion of Britain.

We'll hear about the legacy of Huntley & Palmers, once the largest biscuit manufacturer in the world, visit the regenerated Abbey Quarter, Reading Gaol and the exceptional patterned brickwork that adorns Reading’s buildings

This episode contains some real surprises.  So join us as we celebrate our own festival of Reading.

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Ye Olde Guide is a podcast about the history of English towns and cities.  In this first episode we’re visiting the midlands city of Coventry.   

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In the first category culture we will discuss Lady Godiva’s naked ride through the city, the birth of two-tone, and Coventry’s essential place in the history of British multiculturalism.  For politics and war we’ll be talking The Blitz, the world wars and the turbulent period when Coventry was said to have acted as the capital of England! 
In the third category science and industry we’ll hear how Coventry’s rise and fall in car manufacturing gained it the label ‘the Detroit of England’.
Finally for urban heritage we bring you the tale of three cathedrals, not quite-lost medieval heritage and ground-breaking 20th century urban regeneration

Thank you for joining us and we really hope you enjoy this first episode as we send you to Coventry.

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Start here! This short introduction explains how we plan to structure the podcast.

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