SECRETS!

In this latest episode, the Unexpected duo, Professor James Daybell and Dr Sam Willis get all hush, hush (we'd love to tell you, but then we'd have to kill you....) about the extraordinarily unexpected history of SECRETS! Which is all about Elizabethan Catholics, recusancy laws and priest holes (and a recent adventure at the wonderful Harvington Hall); it's about secret codes and ciphers, and the practice of hiding sweaty gloves in chimneys to deter malign spirits. It's also all about D-Day and operations in WW2, misogynistic attitudes in the past of women not being able to keep secrets, and Charles Swynnerton's Indian Nights' Entertainment; or, Folk-Tales from the Upper Indus. Who knew!

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