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As fresh and poignant today as when they were written, these touching letters capture the heart of everyday life during the Civil War. Set both at home in Florida and on the front, the letters were written by two generations of families whose members included radical secessionists, moderates, and even a few Unionists.

Urania Cottage was a charitable home established in the late 1840s by Charles Dickens and the philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts. Located in Shepherd’s Bush, west London, it was created to provide a fresh start for women who had been involved in prostitution or petty crime. Dickens, deeply concerned with social reform, personally helped to design and manage the program, reviewing applications, writing admission rules, and keeping detailed reports on the women’s progress.

Welcome to Nym and Nylene's Nightmare Cottage, where we explore history, mysteries, and other tales of the Macabre. Let the Nightmare begin!

The Pipe Cottage Podcast. Hosted by Alan Harrelson.

Podcast for the magickally curious inclined. A weekly podcast looking at various topics of witchcraft from history to olde ways of healing, poison making, ritual attending, and all the good (and bad) stuff in between. 1st series- Women condemned by Witchcraft and the Men (asshats) who found them Guilty.

Cornell University, 1967: a series of fires targeting an elite group of freshman killed eight students and one beloved professor. In the podcast Deliberate, survivors share their memories of the tragic events. Fifty years later, the mystery of Cornell's fatal fire is revisited, and clues to the identity of the arsonist are revealed.