MYW: Bradford’s Deadly Delicacies
Iain transports us to 1858 Bradford – then the world's wool capital, where confectioner William Hardaker ("Humbug Billy") unknowingly sold arsenic-contaminated sweets that resulted in one of Britain's most devastating mass poisonings. Plus your emails feature a burglar delivered to police by Batman, a theory about…
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