Welcome to No Heathen Land.....

This episode my guest is the wonderful Storyteller, Actor, Theatre Producer and all round fascinating human Matthew Bellwood.

Matthew tells me the story of the infamous 'Yorkshire Witch' Mary Bateman, con-woman extraordinaire, apparent kleptomaniac and ultimately, murderer!

Links to sources used in this episode:

The Extraordinary Life and Character of Mary Bateman, the Yorkshire Witch

Gale MOML Print Editions, Trials Collection 1600-1926

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths In Leeds

David Goodman, Warncliffe Books, 2003

Bloody British History: Leeds

Richard Smyth, The History Press, 2013

Criminal Leeds: From earliest records to 1879 

Steven Burt (I can't seem to spot any publishing details for this pamphlet - maybe it's in the library catalogue?)

The Yorkshire Witch: The Life and Trial of Mary Bateman

Summer Strevens, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2017

The Ballad of Mary Bateman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04lmJOw46NM

Links to Matthew's work:

About Matthew https://somestories.co.uk

Audio walks:

Stirring up the Past - https://www.stirringupthepast.org/ 

A Garden Through Time - https://www.365leedsstories.org/maps/map-19/ 

A Walk In The Park - http://www.aquietword.co.uk/park/

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