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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Heroin for your cough. Belladonna for your eyes. And a mouthwash named after the Father of Antiseptic Surgery. Welcome to the Victorian medicine cabinet, where the cure was often worse than the disease! NEW video now up on my #YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEL8...

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A Spoonful of Heroin...!

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The things I do for YouTube... Anyway, here's a new episode on Lizzie Borden and the development of crime scene photography: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LKY...

A photo of Lindsey wearing a fake moustache that matches her reddish blonde hair perfectly

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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

⛵️ What really happened during Franklin’s doomed expedition? In the latest episode of BURIED EVIDENCE we investigate one of history’s greatest naval mysteries. From dismissed testimony and *those* tins of food, to archaeological evidence and recent discoveries. Listen now pod.fo/e/69e7d6

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Buried Evidence: Death in the Arctic: Franklin's Lost Expedition - Part 1

London, 1848. Three years have passed since Sir John Franklin and 128 officers and men sailed into the Arctic, in search of the Northwest Passage. No letters, no survivors, no ships.What nobody yet...

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Buried Evidence: Death in the Arctic: Franklin's Lost Expedition - Part 1

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Being Human Festival @beinghumanfest.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This year we have many festival events taking place across North West England. Creative writing in Liverpool, fake furniture in Oldham, soil-powered photography in Salford, and accent and dialect in Barrow. Browse events by region to discover what's happening near you! bit.ly/4yyyPjS #BeingHuman2026

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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You Americans are very lucky! @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social on tour with Sleuth-Hound!!!

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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh, enjoy! Let me know next time and we can grab a tea / wine 🥂

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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I loved it when I first read it. Rereading at the moment, and it’s still rather good. There’s a foldout print of the painting with clues at the front of the book too.

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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thank you! The novel was my gran’s and I read it as a teenager on her recommendation.

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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I also love how HUGE his author picture is. It’s literally the entire back cover.

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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Petition for all author bios to be as exciting as they were in the 1980s. Peter Watson’s bio for his novel, Landscape of Lies, goes from 0 to 100 in a couple of sentences…

Peter Watson was for many years a Journalist on the staffs of The Sunday Times, The Times and Observer. In 1982, after disguising himself as an art dealer, he exposed a gang of art smugglers who were stealing old master paintings in Italy and selling them in New York and London. The courier of the gang was a Roman Catholic priest attached to the Vatican's mission to the United Nations. Peter Watson's account of the adventure, published in Britain as Double Dealer and in America as The Caravaggio Conspiracy, won a Gold Dagger Award from the Crime Writer's Associa-tion. The BBC TV film of the book was nominated for an Emmy.

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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There’s a reason you don’t get witch cakes at Greggs… Watch the latest episode of BURIED EVIDENCE to find out. @rakshadigs.bsky.social and I explore the Salem Witch Trials. youtu.be/EJ4YFuiCky4?...

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200 People Accused of Witchcraft. Why? | Buried Evidence

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#MedievalSky In case your students this week come in w/ questions about the Russian plague case currently in the news, you can tell them: 1) if this is plague (Yersinia pestis), there is nothing unusual about it (a) being in Russia or (b) being the subject of lab research. Plague is worldwide.

The opening of a 2019 study of the 20th-century Soviet system for controlling plague. Citation: Susan D. Jones, Bakyt Atshabar, Boris V. Schmid, Marlene Zuk, Anna Amramina, and Nils Chr. Stenseth. "Living with Plague: Lessons from the Soviet Union's Antiplague Syste," PNAS 116, no. 19 (6 May 2019), 9155-9163, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1817339116.
Abstract: Zoonoses, such as plague, are primarily animal diseases that spill over into human populations. While the goal of eradicating such diseases is enticing, historical experience validates abandoning eradication in favor of ecologically based control strategies (which reduce morbidity and mortality to a locally accepted risk level). During the 20th century, one of the most extensive plague-eradication efforts in recorded history was undertaken to enable large-scale changes in land use in the former Soviet Union (including vast areas of central Asia). Despite expending tremendous resources in its attempt to eradicate plague, the Soviet antiplague response gradually abandoned the goal of eradication in favor of plague control linked with developing basic knowledge of plague ecology. Drawing from this experience, we combine new gray-literature sources, historical and recent research, and fieldwork to outline best practices for the control of spillover from zoonoses while minimally disrupting wildlife ecosystems, and we briefly compare the Soviet case with that of endemic plague in the western United States. We argue for the allocation of sufficient resources to maintain ongoing local surveillance, education, and targeted control measures; to incorporate novel technologies selectively; and to use ecological research to inform developing landscape-based models for transmission interruption. We conclude that living with emergent and reemergent zoonotic diseases—switching to control—opens wider possibilities for interrupting spillover while preserving natural ecosystems, encouraging adaptation to local conditions, and usi…

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Raksha Dave @rakshadigs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yup there certainly is….😳 Here’s our first offering for #Halloween 🎃 month 🧙 #Archaeology #History #BuriedEvidence #podcast #salem

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200 People Accused of Witchcraft. Why? | Buried Evidence

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Dr Amy Fuller @amyfuller.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The next episode of #ChallengingHistories produced by @histfest.bsky.social is out now. I’m talking to the brilliant @manwithoutatan.bsky.social about the LGBTQIA community living in Weimar Germany. Available wherever you get your podcasts pod.link/6809223500

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British History Online @bho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

New #OpenAccess #History: Alice Thornton’s Books Reassessing the Life Writings of a Seventeenth-Century Woman Edited by Cordelia Beattie, Suzanne Trill, Joanne Edge. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

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Alice Thornton’s Books | Reassessing the Life Writings of a Seventeent

This book is the first dedicated study of Alice Thornton (1626–1707) and her life writings, offering unprecedented insights into how one early modern woman

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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Also - Tom Cruise is probably going to be nominated for the best actor Oscar. I think it’d be deserved. I wouldn’t be surprised if Riz Ahmed and John Goodman got nods as supporting actors too.

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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So, #Digger is a pretty insane film. I can totally see why and how it has divided critics. I thought it was really good (I think?) in a super bold way. It’s knowingly grotesque and there is a twist that’ll either work for you or it won’t. I won’t spoil.

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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If YouTube is more your thing, you can also watch it here youtu.be/EJ4YFuiCky4?...

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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

📜 NEW EPISODE 📜 Some Saturday listening for you. Delighted share the link to our brand new episode of BURIED EVIDENCE where @rakshadigs.bsky.social and I explore the most notorious witchcraft case of all… THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS. Listen wherever you get your podcasts pod.fo/e/67b559

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Buried Evidence: Here Be Witches: The Salem Witch Trials

It’s the 19th of July 1692 and thirty-nine year old Sarah Good, is the youngest of five women being trundled through Salem Village to a hill on the outskirts of the settlement. They are to be han...

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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What do spectral evidence, locust trees and Cotton Mather have in common? They’re all discussed in tomorrow’s episode of BURIED EVIDENCE. Follow / subscribe so you don’t miss an episode podfollow.com/buriedevidence

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Is true crime our latest obsession, or just history's oldest guilty pleasure?A brand-new exploration of historical true crime through the ages, exposes why we should be looking over our shoulders to t...

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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m really thrilled to share details of a special day-course that we’re running at @lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk ‘Toil and Trouble’: Early Modern Witchcraft Sat 27 Feb 2027 - Oxford Speakers include Dr Laura Kounine, Dr Tabitha Stanmore and myself. lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/toil...

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'Toil and Trouble': Early Modern Witchcraft - Oxford Lifelong Learning

Explore the history of witchcraft belief and persecution during the early modern period in this special study day.

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'Toil and Trouble': Early Modern Witchcraft - Oxford Lifelong Learning

Explore the history of witchcraft belief and persecution during the early modern period in this special study day.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wonderful to see SLEUTH-HOUND featured! Thanks @deanjobb.bsky.social for the heads up!

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Upon graduating medical school in 1881, Arthur Conan Doyle did a doodle of himself waving his diploma over his head. The caption reads: "Licensed to Kill." My new book SLEUTH-HOUND is about Conan Doyle's professor, Joseph Bell - the real-life Sherlock Holmes. Out Oct 20! linktr.ee/drlindseyfit...

A simple doodle showing a man, Conan Doyle, waving his diploma over his head. Underneath the doodle it says: Licensed to kill

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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There’s a good book called Jamestown Brides that might give you some of the answers. I suspect most were in their early 20s.

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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also, we talk a lot about the cinematography in Hitchcock films, but the sound design in Vertigo is equally exquisite.

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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Rewatching Vertigo for the first time in many, many years and realising how wonderful Barbara Bel Geddes was as Midge.

Photo of Barbara Bel Geddes as Midge in Vertigo

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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Always love an excuse to share the Hot Satan statue by Guillaume Geefs at Liege Cathedral. Believe it or not, this is a toned down version. The original by Guillaume’s brother Joseph was considered too hot.

The Lucifer of Liège by Guillaume Geefs.
The marble sculpture depicts Satan as an objectively hot fallen angel.

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HistFest @histfest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🚨NEW EPISODE 🚨 In the latest episode of CHALLENGING HISTORIES, @amyfuller.bsky.social is joined by historian and author of Humans: A Monstrous History, @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social. Listen wherever you get your podcasts podfollow.com/6809223500

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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Have you seen the latest Lizzie Borden drama series? If you want to go beyond the sensationalism, have a listen to the latest episode of BURIED EVIDENCE. @rakshadigs.bsky.social and I explore the real history of the Borden Murders pod.fo/e/65302e

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Buried Evidence: Lizzie Borden Took An Axe…

As the legend of Lizzie Borden comes to Netflix, we visit one of the most notorious murder mysteries in American history. A brutal double murder that inspired one of the darkest nursery rhymes of a...

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Raksha Dave @rakshadigs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Here’s our next episode drop - Have you been watching #Netflix Monster on Lizzie Borden? - I honestly think the historical case needed no embellishments! #podcast #buriedevidence #truecrime 👇

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Buried Evidence: Lizzie Borden Took An Axe…

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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My favourite was yesterday from Harriet Harman (paraphrasing) “I think we should shut down social media”. Um, ok. #Thewargame

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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So this is basically #ThickOfIt, right? They’ve gone from a couple of murders to global nuclear war in like 3 hours. 😂 #TheWarGame

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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So, I think Nicola Sturgeon is perhaps the only one coming out of this ok(ish)? Granted, I’ve only just started this evenings episode #TheWargame

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