Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.

A bit of a different thing going on this week.

You've been immature and you've lied.

And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.

I was trying to manipulate you.

Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.

I know, I'd be like, are you joking?

I don't know.

I guess you'd have to ask.

Someone that has sex.

Someone that has sex.

And remember, it's just between us.

Welcome to the History Extra podcast.

Fascinating historical conversations from BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed.

Long before the rise of the internet troll, malicious letters written by anonymous authors were causing untold grief to those who

received them, and tugging at the seams of social cohesion in small communities. Such letters are

the subject of Emily Cockane's latest book, Penning Poison. Here, in conversation with Spencer

Mizzen, Emily reveals what the rise in these spiteful

missives can tell us about social change in the 19th and 20th centuries. Hi, Emily, thank you for

joining us today. Now, you've written a book on the history of anonymous letters called Penning Poison. And as luck would

have it, you've also written a feature on that very topic for the October issue of BBC History

magazine. Now, just to give our listeners a bit of an overview of what exactly we're talking about here,

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