Ipswich History Podcast

Ipswich History Podcast

Caleb Howgego

Episodes 8
Avg. Duration 30m
Activity Highly Active
Since Nov 2019
Latest Episode May 2025

Publishing Details

Schedule
Irregularly
Format
Episodic
Hosting
anchor.fm

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About This Podcast

A podcast that explores the history of Ipswich.

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Recent Episodes

Episode 8 - Dickensian Ipswich

May 19, 2025 29m

In this episode I go on a history tour with Mike Garland from the Ipswich Tour Guides Association to look at locations in the town that feature in the works of Charles Dickens. We also talk about…

Episode 7 - Cardinal Wolsey

Oct 23, 2023 1h 8m

In this episode I speak to Phil Roberts the author of a book called Cardinal Wolsey: For King and Country that was published in 2022. Phil talks about the Ipswich Wolsey would have known as a child,…

Episode 6 - Ipswich and the Hanseatic League

Jul 20, 2020 28m

In this episode I speak to Pat Grimwade from the Ipswich Maritime Trust about her new publication about Ipswich's little-known connections to the Hanseatic League. The Hanseatic League was a…

Episode 5 - Early Prehistoric Ipswich

Jul 13, 2020 23m

This episode features a conversation with Hannah Cutler from the Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service about early prehistoric Ipswich. Hannah talks about what the area that would one day…

Episode 4 - The Rights of the River

Jul 06, 2020 30m

In this episode I speak to Andy Parker about how the River Orwell came to be gifted to Ipswich by King Henry VIII in 1519 and why it is that Ipswich appears to be the only town in the country to own…

Episode 3 - Smugglers Pond

Jun 29, 2020 7m

This mini episode of the podcasts looks at the history of Chestnut Pond, located on the eastern outskirts of Ipswich in Rushmere St. Andrew, and its past connections to smuggling. It also retells…

Episode 2 - 17th Century Ipswich and the East Anglian Witch-Hunts

Nov 05, 2019 36m

In the year 1645 the biggest witch-hunt in English history got underway and East Anglia was at its grim centre. Hundreds of people were hanged in East Anglia during the following few years after…

Episode 1 - Basil Brown

Nov 01, 2019 33m

This first episode of the Ipswich History Podcast explores the life and work of Basil Brown, who is best known for his excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship burial in the summer of 1939. But, as we will…

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