Secret Chambers and Hiding Places by Allan Fea ~ Full Audiobook [history]

Secret Chambers and Hiding Places by Allan Fea audiobook.

Genre: history

In Secret Chambers and Hiding Places, antiquary and storyteller Allan Fea invites listeners into the shadowed architecture of Britain where walls conceal more than timber and stone. Moving through manor houses, castles, and old religious buildings, Fea traces the real historical pressures that produced secret rooms, false floors, sliding panels, disguised trapdoors, and hidden staircases, especially during eras when pursuivants searched for outlawed Catholic priests and other fugitives. With an eye for both mechanism and human stakes, he recounts how families prepared their homes for sudden raids, how 'priest holes' were engineered to defeat hammer tests and probing rods, and how a concealed space could mean days of silence, hunger, and terror for the person sealed inside. Fea also follows these hiding places into later upheavals, including civil conflict and Jacobite intrigue, showing how the same cunning designs served new causes and new runaways. Blending architectural detective work with vivid anecdotes, the book turns each secret chamber into a doorway to the anxieties, loyalties, and ingenuity of the past.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:15:28) Chapter 2

(00:27:52) Chapter 3

(00:40:45) Chapter 4

(00:51:25) Chapter 5

(01:04:09) Chapter 6

(01:21:35) Chapter 7

(01:37:42) Chapter 8

(02:00:42) Chapter 9

(02:13:36) Chapter 10

(02:24:09) Chapter 11

(02:39:30) Chapter 12

(02:54:15) Chapter 13

(03:06:34) Chapter 14

(03:12:21) Chapter 15

(03:25:52) Chapter 16

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