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 鈥楾he Spinster Flats鈥�. 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鈥檚 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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- Sun 21 Jun 2020 07:0091热爆 Radio Scotland
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Time Travels
Susan Morrison explores the rich and sometimes murky depths of Scotland's past.
