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Queen's Evidence and Wandering Minstrels

The Scottish history podcast for people who know that history is never truly in the past.

• 28 mins

Pirates and Queens

If you thought pirates only infested the Caribbean, think again!

• 28 mins

The Face of a Witch

How to reconstruct the face of an accused witch. First find your witch’s skull...

• 28 mins

Poltergeists and Warlocks

Poltergeists, warlocks, devils and oh my!

• 28 mins

Highland Bandits and POWs

The dreadful truth about Highland Bandits.

• 27 mins

Bubonic Plagues and Highland Murder

What do you do when a plague approaches? Repent for your juiciest sins now!

• 27 mins

Contraception Clinics and Statue Smashers

When contraception is a dirty word, how do you open a clinic in 1920s Aberdeen?

• 27 mins

Sex and the Single Girl

Sex and the single girl in the 17th century and in the 1970s

• 27 mins

Animal Magic

Beetles, human leopards and a royal parrot get their moment in history

• 28 mins

Boys in Trouble

Boys in trouble - scapegoated in the 1960s, preyed upon in the 1880s by a dangerous conman

• 27 mins

Private Lives

Susan Morrison explores the rich and sometimes murky depths of Scotland's past.

• 28 mins

Burning Questions

Rebels against Kings, racist science and the church.

• 28 mins

Deadly Insults and Decisive Shipwrecks

What’s the worst thing you can call someone? 16th century Scots had a lot of ideas.

• 26 mins

Port Riots and Dogs' Lives

Was it a dog’s life in 17th century Scotland? You could end up as gloves.

• 27 mins

Female Convicts and Invisible Agents

Female spies in the age of the Three Musketeers.

• 28 mins

High Flats and Dodgy Doctors

What was it like to live in a 1960s city in the sky?

• 28 mins

Striking Gold and Surviving a Nuclear War

Devin Grier of Edinburgh University introduces Susan to the hazards of the 1849 Gold Rush.

• 28 mins

Legends

Border reivers, Highland ghosts and the truth about pirates...

• 27 mins

Pirates and Divers

Pirates, sunken Spanish silver and the enslaved Africans who dived for it.

• 28 mins

Fair Amazonians and Modern Morals

Rowdy Dundonian women plus the dilemmas of living together then and now.

• 27 mins

Empire and Dominion

Feisty enterprising women and one way to get independence from empire

• 28 mins

Healing and Hurting

Highland doctors, ‘charming’ witches and desperate poisoners with Susan Morrison.

• 28 mins

Women, Witchcraft and Violence

How domestic abuse moves with the times, shape-shifting witches and women’s work.

• 28 mins

Single Mums and Teen Brides

A war widow after Flodden plus shotgun weddings in the 1970s

• 28 mins

Assassination and Murder

Hanging onto Mary Queen of Scots jewels after an assassination plus murder in Dundee

• 28 mins

Royals and Railways

The woman who would be Queen - Elizabeth Stuart, First Daughter of Scotland

• 28 mins

Motorbikes and McDonalds

Susan Morrison explores the rich and sometimes murky depths of Scotland's past.

• 27 mins

Playing At Soldiers

Meet the first Normans in Scotland and go to war with the toy soldiers

• 27 mins

A Witch Hunt In The Family

What happens to an ordinary family in a witch hunt? Susan Morrison finds out.

• 28 mins

Curious Cures and Life on the Road

Fascinating cures in mediaeval Gaelic manuscripts and travelling life for Scotland's poor

• 28 mins