Ep 294 - Bathsheba Spooner & A House of Soldiers

Ep 294 is loose! And we have the tale of a woman who plotted against her husband, with several chaps who she kept smuggling into her house...

Who was Bathsheba Spooner? Why did she want her husband dead? And won't someone please think of the spoons?!

The secret ingredient is...a shiny shoe buckle!

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Sources this week include: Bathsheba Spooner: A Revolutionary Murder Conspiracy by Andrew Noone plus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathsheba_Spooner https://historicipswich.net/2026/02/03/the-hanging-of-bathsheba-spooner-july-2-1778/ https://georgianera.wordpress.com/2022/03/21/the-story-of-bathsheba-spooner/ https://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/48055767.pdf https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2011/06/bathsheba-spooner-murderer.html

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