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excludes plug-in hybrids, Delantis Financial Services. Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

I'm Millie Callthorne, and for today's podcast I spoke to the cultural historian Karen Harvey about one of history's most bizarre hoaxes. In 1726, a poor working woman from Surrey caused a media

sensation when she appeared to give birth to rabbits.

Karen is the author of a new book on the case,

the imposterous rabbit breeder, Mary Toft and the 18th century England.

So I headed to Yorkshire to hear more from Karen

about what this so-called rabbit breeder hoax can tell us about gender, class,

society and scandal in the 18th century.

So your new book delves into the story of the imposterous rabbit breeder Mary Toft,

which was a case that captured the imagination of 18th century society.

To start us off, can you just set the scene and outline what this bizarre hoax involved?

Well, I suppose the place to start is a woman who is poor. She is struggling to make ends meet.

And she's in a small town in Surrey, Godalming,

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