The Bones and Bobbins Podcast

Mar 05 2024 73 ep. 88 mins 29
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In the Venn diagram of crafting, true crime, and morbid curiosity, you’ll find Bones & Bobbins digging through dusty old boxes in a curiosity shop parked right at the center.

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3 - Postage Play and Courting: Love Victorian Style

Mar 05 2024 108 mins  
S05E03: The very Victorian art of dating and the hidden codes in Victorian love letters. Sit down for a bit of old fashioned Victorian dating advice, flirting etiquette, and fan wielding tips, then cozy up by the fire to search for hidden meanings within the latest sweet missive penned by your most beloved. So many rules! So much mail! Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/

2 - The Bewitching and Beguiling Power of Love Spells

Feb 05 2024 103 mins  
S05E02: A brief history of love spells and how they’re still being used today. As long as there have been people, there have been love spells. They’re sometimes beautiful, frequently horny, and nearly always ethically questionable. They also might make you want to hide your fingernails, put off buying supplies for that candle-making project, and never buy stick pins again. Wh

1 - Putting the Cult in Cutlery

Jan 22 2024 60 mins  
S05E01: The Oneida Cult. Ever wonder if your silverware was once in a questionable cult? No? Just us? The Oneida Cult had some truly ahead-of-its-time views on sex and sexuality. And, if their community hadn’t also included a dark shadow of appalling abuse towards its teenage members, this could have been a very different podcast episode. (Alas, no.) But, it may surprise you to

8 - Where Did You Find That Key? Secret Drawers, Hidden Compartments, and Locked Cabinets

Oct 13 2023 60 mins  
S04E08: The secret drawers, hidden compartments, and locked cabinets nestled into pieces of antique furniture. Because, who doesn’t want an excuse to look for indoor treasures on a crisp, cloudy fall day? Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2023/10/13/season-4-episode-08

7 - Wait. Where did YOU come from?

Jul 28 2023 102 mins  
S04E07: American islands that never lost their British accents (from the 16 and 1700s) and the unnatural origins of the Transatlantic Accent. Learn some new (old) phrases from Hoi Toiders, Outer Banks Brogue speakers, and the folks who live on Tangier Island, Smith Island, and other isolated seafaring outposts in the Chesapeake Bay who never quite lost their British accents. Then

6 - Dreadnought, Sink Not

Jun 14 2023 69 mins  
S04E06: The USS Recruit (1917), the dreadnought in Union Square, and the Unsinkable Molly Brown Like real historical stories that are way, way better than their legendary counterparts? Join us on a trip back through time and experience the United States’ plan to increase wartime recruitment by commissioning a fully crewed warship that was stationed in the middle of Union Square

5 - Traysure!

May 15 2023 89 mins  
S04E05: Metal detecting, geocaching, and digging up stuff in your own backyard! It’s digging in the dirt and tromping through the woods season! Come along with us while Haley contemplates metal detecting, breaking the law, and digging up her basement, and Natali goes on a fantastic geocaching and letterboxing adventure (and also partakes in some light botanical thievery). Not

4 - The Deadly Garden

Apr 13 2023 83 mins  
S04E04: Poisonous Plants and Drury Lane Gardens. Take a stroll around a garden so dangerous that just walking through it can cause you to faint, then scamper off to the world of London’s pocket parks for a wholesome reinvention of a place with a deadly past. Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2023/04/13/season-4-episode-04

3 - Paws, Claws, and Caws: The Lore of Black Cats, Crows, and Ravens

Mar 18 2023 86 mins  
S04E03: The lore of black cats, crows, and ravens. Us, to literally every black cat or corvid we see: Who’re our good little witches’ familiars? Sweet baby omens of doom? The bestest spooky speakers of truth ever? Corvids and black cats: Us: YES YOU ARE!! Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2023/03/18/season-4-episode-03

2 - Beauty and the Bikes

Feb 12 2023 78 mins  
S04E02: Beauty entrepreneur and philanthropist Madam C. J. Walker and Boston bicycling trailblazer Kittie Knox. Fan of a multi-step beauty routine? (Same.) So, as it happens, was Madam C. J. Walker, who built a national beauty empire while providing a path for other Black women to build businesses of their own. Meanwhile, over in Boston, Kittie Knox was riding and racing her bicy