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Lady Swindlers with Lucy Worsley

June 22, 2025June 23, 2025 Deborah 1459 Views

Lucy Worsley and I discuss Mary Bateman, the Yorkshire Witch. Did she have the power to cure and banish evil

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Lady Swindlers with Lucy Worsley
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Folklore of the malign and macabre. Former Ed. @TheSkepticMag. Regular #Uncanny expert. Fellow: Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Patron: Humanists UK.

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mikecovell Mike Covell @mikecovell ·
3 Mar

Published five new books today, four of which are about Hull during WWII, covering the Evacuations, Blackouts, The Dead End Kids, and The Last Raid @StoryHull @Hullhistorynews @RadioHumberside @hulllive @hull_libraries

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3 Mar

A reminder to listen to the latest episode of @WeirdInTheWade from Natalie Doig. It's 'Paranormal Women: An International Women’s Day Celebration'. I've contributed, with @_EvelynHollow, @BethanJones9 & @StephanieLay .

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drfrancisyoung Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung ·
2 Mar

@CapelLofft @joseph_rohrbach And it’s perfectly possible to be a committed hawk and oppose UK involvement against Iran because other nations (e.g. Russia) should be the UK’s main focus. It’s not Iran whose shadow fleet is all over our territorial waters

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chriscfrench Chris French profchrisfrench.bsky.social 🇺🇦 @chriscfrench ·
3 Mar

Next up at @GreenwichSitP: Deborah Hyde (aka @jourdemayne) on "The Hull Werewolf" at 7:30pm on 9/3/26 at the Plume of Feathers, 19 Park Vista, Greenwich, London SE10 9LZ. I used to be a werewolf but I'm OK nooooooooooow! Free, open to all, no need to book. https://greenwichskeptics.org/

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