Susan Morrison explores the rich and sometimes murky depths of Scotland's past.
Radio Scotland,·44 episodes
Flats for single women in Glasgow, witchcraft in Ayrshire and VD in the 18th century.
21 Jun 2020,·27 mins
The Scottish history podcast for people who know that history is never truly in the past.
28 Jun 2020,·28 mins
Tales of feistiness and formica as we meet the women of the west.
28 Sep 2020,·4 mins
01 Oct 2020,·28 mins
If you thought pirates only infested the Caribbean, think again!
22 Oct 2020,·28 mins
How to reconstruct the face of an accused witch. First find your witch’s skull...
28 Oct 2020,·28 mins
Poltergeists, warlocks, devils and oh my!
The dreadful truth about Highland Bandits.
05 Nov 2020,·27 mins
What do you do when a plague approaches? Repent for your juiciest sins now!
12 Nov 2020,·27 mins
When contraception is a dirty word, how do you open a clinic in 1920s Aberdeen?
22 Nov 2020,·27 mins
Sex and the single girl in the 17th century and in the 1970s
29 Nov 2020,·27 mins
Beetles, human leopards and a royal parrot get their moment in history
06 Dec 2020,·28 mins
Boys in trouble - scapegoated in the 1960s, preyed upon in the 1880s by a dangerous conman
13 Dec 2020,·27 mins
20 Dec 2020,·28 mins
Rebels against Kings, racist science and the church.
27 Dec 2020,·28 mins
What’s the worst thing you can call someone? 16th century Scots had a lot of ideas.
03 Jan 2021,·26 mins
Was it a dog’s life in 17th century Scotland? You could end up as gloves.
10 Jan 2021,·27 mins
Female spies in the age of the Three Musketeers.
17 Jan 2021,·28 mins
What was it like to live in a 1960s city in the sky?
24 Jan 2021,·28 mins
Devin Grier of Edinburgh University introduces Susan to the hazards of the 1849 Gold Rush.
31 Jan 2021,·28 mins
Border reivers, Highland ghosts and the truth about pirates...
03 Jul 2021,·27 mins
Pirates, sunken Spanish silver and the enslaved Africans who dived for it.
10 Jul 2021,·28 mins
Rowdy Dundonian women plus the dilemmas of living together then and now.
17 Jul 2021,·27 mins
Feisty enterprising women and one way to get independence from empire
24 Jul 2021,·28 mins
Highland doctors, ‘charming’ witches and desperate poisoners with Susan Morrison.
31 Jul 2021,·28 mins
How domestic abuse moves with the times, shape-shifting witches and women’s work.
07 Aug 2021,·28 mins
A war widow after Flodden plus shotgun weddings in the 1970s
16 Apr 2022,·28 mins
Hanging onto Mary Queen of Scots jewels after an assassination plus murder in Dundee
23 Apr 2022,·28 mins
The woman who would be Queen - Elizabeth Stuart, First Daughter of Scotland
30 Apr 2022,·28 mins
