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Spirit Guides and Spinsters

Susan Morrison looks into housing for women in post-war Glasgow, the Ayrshire case of accused witch Bessie Dunlop, and VD treatment in Enlightenment Edinburgh.

Susan Morrison finds out from Dr Valerie Wright of Glasgow University about how the city sought to house its single working women after WW2 - and did it in style in Crathie Court nicknamed ‘The Spinster Flats’. Moving to Ayrshire, witchcraft historians Dr Lizanne Henderson of Glasgow and Laura Moffat of Strathclyde University introduce us to the strange 16th century case of Bessie Dunlop who allegedly made friends with a ghost and chatted to fairies, and then it’s off to Enlightenment Edinburgh with Dr Kevin Sienna of Trent University in Ontario for a bad case of the pox - how did they treat syphilis back then?

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28 minutes

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Sun 29 May 2022 07:00

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  • Sun 21 Jun 2020 07:00
  • Sat 28 May 2022 18:30
  • Sun 29 May 2022 07:00

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