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20. Mabel Barltrop & the Panacea Society

20. Mabel Barltrop & the Panacea Society

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The British town of Bedford may seem like an unlikely spot for the Garden of Eden, but members of the Panacea Society really believed it was.


This week, Amy is joined by Zara Matthews, Director of the Panacea Museum, to discuss the life of Mabel Barltrop aka Octavia. How did an Anglican vicar's widow go on to found a matriarchal religious sect based on the prophecies of Joanna Southcott? What was the truth of her "cure for all ills"? And what did she tell her followers if they ate their toast too loudly?

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