The Back Then letter
One story from the past, every week
A short letter with every episode: the sources, a map and one thing I could not fit in.
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A new one every Wednesday morning.
Episode 62 · Nov 11, 2026 · 46 min
The week the river froze
Ice, a stalled port and what the harbour clerk wrote down.
Episode 61 · Nov 4, 2026 · 51 min
A town that moved overnight
Why every building on the old street ended up a mile away.
Episode 60 · Oct 28, 2026 · 44 min
The letters nobody answered
A bundle found in a drawer, and the question each one asks.
Episode 59 · Oct 21, 2026 · 48 min
What the harbour ledger said
Seven years of ships, cargo and one very careful hand.
Episode 58 · Oct 14, 2026 · 49 min
Forty miles of mud and one bridge
The road that decided where the county grew.
Episode 57 · Oct 7, 2026 · 53 min
The mill, the strike and the mayor's notebook
Two versions of one winter, and what each one skips.
