http://www.actualeducation.co.uk Explore some of the most fascinating moments in the history of Edinburgh, York, Chester and other places in this new podcast! en-PI http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ JellyCast http://www.jellycast.com sales@actualeducation.co.uk (actualeducation) Travel Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:35:52 +0000 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:59:43 +0000 https://actualeducation.jellycast.com/files/thumb.jpg http://www.actualeducation.co.uk 144 144 Explore some of the most fascinating moments in the history of Edinburgh, York, Chester and other places in this new podcast! Actual Education Ltd actualeducation sales@actualeducation.co.uk podcast No No Explore some of the most fascinating moments in the history of Edinburgh, York, Chester and other places in this new podcast! Actual Education produce Interactive Guided Tours of historic places throughout the United Kingdom. We believe history is full of fascinating stories and that the best way to enjoy these stories is to stand in the locations where they actually happened. Our podcasts will reveal some of the most interesting stories from the history of Edinburgh, York and Chester. Other places will be included over the coming years. Most of our podcasts will also come with free-to-download resources such as self-guided tour maps which can be used in conjunction with the associated podcast episode. Check out our website www.actualeducation.co.uk to access these free resources and explore our range of historical Interactive Guided Tours. Happy virtual exploring! https://actualeducation.jellycast.com/node/11 Virtual tours are often said to be 'just like being there'. They aren't, but that doesn't mean they can't be a really useful tour to anyone planning on visiting the location, or who has just been, or who probably will never get to make an actual visit. We give you our personal top 6 reasons for using a historical virtual tour. We've got a competition to win a download of our latest title 'Edinburgh's History - The Old Town Interactive Guided Tour'. This is one of the biggest historic virtual tours we've ever seen and we're sure you'll love it! Happy virtual touring! Sun, 06 Feb 2011 14:59:30 +0000 Content https://actualeducation.jellycast.com/node/11 jellycast https://actualeducation.jellycast.com/node/11 No Podcast 00:12:03 https://actualeducation.jellycast.com/node/10 Our fourth podcast looks at the murders of Burke and Hare. We take you around some of the Old Town of Edinburgh locations which would have been familiar to William Burke and William Hare. This week's episode comes with a downloadable Burke and Hare Self-guided tour map. This Edinburgh tour map is free of charge. This episode concludes our series of podcasts on the subject of bodysnatchers and the Burke and Hare West Port murders. Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:34:08 +0000 Content https://actualeducation.jellycast.com/node/10 actualeducation https://actualeducation.jellycast.com/node/10 Burke and Hare - includes links to free self-guided tour Our fourth podcast looks at the murders of Burke and Hare. We take you around some of the Old Town of Edinburgh locations which would have been familiar to William Burke and William Hare. This week's episode comes with a downloadable Burke and Hare Self-guided tour map. This Edinburgh tour map is free of charge. This episode concludes our series of podcasts on the subject of bodysnatchers and the Burke and Hare West Port murders. No history, scotland, edinburgh, virtual tour, burke and hare, bodysnatchers, scottish history, 00:09:55 https://actualeducation.jellycast.com/node/9 Our third podcast takes time out to reflect on why the Burke and Hare story is still important today and on how real history should be portrayed. We look at some links to life in Edinburgh today, we've got another free resource to download and we announce our first ever competition winner! Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:27:24 +0000 Content https://actualeducation.jellycast.com/node/9 actualeducation https://actualeducation.jellycast.com/node/9 Episode 3 - Reflections on Burke and Hare Our third podcast takes time out to reflect on why the Burke and Hare story is still important today and on how real history should be portrayed. We look at some links to life in Edinburgh today, we've got another free resource to download and we announce our first ever competition winner! No history, scotland, edinburgh, virtual tour, burke and hare, bodysnatchers, scottish history 00:15:36 https://actualeducation.jellycast.com/node/8 Our second podcast looks at the conditions for Edinburgh's poor in the first two decades of the nineteenth century. Life was cheap amongst the capital's teeming tenements and high mortality rates meant there was a constant supply of bodies for graves...and where there were freshly dug graves, there were often going to be bodysnatchers... Some bodysnatchers didn't necessarily dug up bodies, they were murderers instead. Last week we found how two women took advantage of Edinburgh's anatomists need for fresh corpses by murdering a young boy, this week we learn about life for the poverty stricken areas of the Old Town, the hunting grounds of Burke and Hare. Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:20:39 +0000 Content https://actualeducation.jellycast.com/node/8 actualeducation https://actualeducation.jellycast.com/node/8 Episode 2 - Edinburgh's Slums - The Hunting Grounds of Burke and Hare Our second podcast looks at the conditions for Edinburgh's poor in the first two decades of the nineteenth century. Life was cheap amongst the capital's teeming tenements and high mortality rates meant there was a constant supply of bodies for graves...and where there were freshly dug graves, there were often going to be bodysnatchers... Some bodysnatchers didn't necessarily dug up bodies, they were murderers instead. Last week we found how two women took advantage of Edinburgh's anatomists need for fresh corpses by murdering a young boy, this week we learn about life for the poverty stricken areas of the Old Town, the hunting grounds of Burke and Hare. No history, scotland, edinburgh, virtual tour, burke and hare, bodysnatchers, scottish history 00:11:01 https://actualeducation.jellycast.com/node/7 Burke and Hare...two of the most famous characters in Edinburgh's history. Our first podcast series will focus on the story of the two Irish murderers. We will also look at the bodysnatching 'phenomenon' which reached a crescendo in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. We will explore some of Edinburgh's graveyards, known haunts of the ressurectionists who were always on the look out for a freshly buried body to dig up and sell to the many anatomists, and their students, who were making Edinburgh one of Europe's foremost centres of medical learning. Episode one will introduce Burke and Hare and look back on some of Edinburgh's earliest grave robber stories. Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:05:02 +0000 Content https://actualeducation.jellycast.com/node/7 actualeducation https://actualeducation.jellycast.com/node/7 Episode 1 - Bodysnatchers! Burke and Hare...two of the most famous characters in Edinburgh's history. Our first podcast series will focus on the story of the two Irish murderers. We will also look at the bodysnatching 'phenomenon' which reached a crescendo in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. We will explore some of Edinburgh's graveyards, known haunts of the ressurectionists who were always on the look out for a freshly buried body to dig up and sell to the many anatomists, and their students, who were making Edinburgh one of Europe's foremost centres of medical learning. Episode one will introduce Burke and Hare and look back on some of Edinburgh's earliest grave robber stories. No history, scotland, edinburgh, virtual tour, burke and hare, bodysnatchers, scottish history 00:20:50