Heidi Thomas: Researching Call the Midwife
Screenwriter Heidi Thomas shares the process of transforming Jennifer Worth's memoirs into the...
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Will Self on the cartoon strip that set him on the road to writing – The Start podcast
The novelist and journalist shares how living a life of austerity inspired his first professional...
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Titanic Lives: The Crew of RMS Titanic
Much has been written about RMS Titanic, but this has tended to concentrate on the ship and its...
Amiable Warriors: A History of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality
The Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) is the oldest surviving LGBT organisation in the UK....
Writer of the Month: Richard Barnett on Crucial Interventions
In this talk medical historian Richard Barnett explores surgery during the 19th century, from the...
England '66: The best of times?
It was a year when England won the World Cup and led the world in all aspects of popular culture,...
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3. History from underneath: women and girls’ experience in the era of industrialisation Lecture...
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Lecture 1 Women, work and wages: from the Black Death to the industrial revolution Lecture 1...
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2. The spinster: a tragic heroine of the industrial revolution? Lecture 2 takes these arguments...
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Suffrage 100: Did militancy help or hinder the fight for the franchise?
By 1912, militancy associated with the Suffragette movement hit its peak, with regular...
Suffrage 100: Did militancy help or hinder the fight for the franchise?
By 1912, militancy associated with the Suffragette movement hit its peak, with regular...
Voices of the Windrush Generation
Voices of the Windrush Generation: The real story told by the people themselves by David Matthews...
Fictional Facts or Factual Fiction? The Social Reality behind Kha stag ʼDzam yag’s "Diary" and Lhag
Fictional Facts or Factual Fiction? Lucia Galli's talk on self-representation and the social...
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3. History from underneath: women and girls’ experience in the era of industrialisation Lecture...
54:40
Lecture 1 Women, work and wages: from the Black Death to the industrial revolution Lecture 1...
49:33
2. The spinster: a tragic heroine of the industrial revolution? Lecture 2 takes these arguments...
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‘Who remembers proper binmen?’ The nostalgia memes that help explain Britain today
Idealising the past is nothing new, but there is something peculiarly revealing about the way a...
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Miles Taylor: Empire and the Turn to Collectivism in British Social Policy, c.1860-1914
The 2014 Annual Lecture 'Empire and the Turn to Collectivism in British Social Policy,...
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Ute Frevert: The Moral Economy of Trust. Modern Trajectories
The 2013 Annual Lecture 'The Moral Economy of Trust: Modern Trajectories' was given by Professor...
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