Social history

Thinking Allowed. Touch. Audio, 29 minutes
Touch: what a single sense can tell us about changing ideas of intimacy and privacy.
Attribution
BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
The dining club dedicated to disproving bad luck
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London
Posted
1 February
Thinking Allowed. Playgrounds. Audio, 29 minutes
The social history of the playground.
Attribution
BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
Town's first historical plaque for a woman
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Nottinghamshire
Posted
12 January
Event marks 200 years of Devonport history
Attribution
Devon
Posted
10 January
Betwixt The Sheets. History of Pubic Hair. Audio, 45 minutes
But how did they manage pubic hair in Ancient Greece, or the Middle Ages?
Attribution
BBC Sounds
Available for over a year
HARDtalk. Alan Hollinghurst: How has Britain changed since the 1980s? Audio, 23 minutes
Stephen Sackur speaks to Alan Hollinghurst, author of Our Evenings and The Line of Beauty
Attribution
BBC World Service
Available for over a year
The pointy-shoed corruption of medieval London
Attribution
London
Posted
5 January
Archive on 4. Upon the Education of the People. Audio, 57 minutes
Sathnam Sanghera explores social and emotional after-effects of the 1944 Education Act.
Attribution
BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
Inside museum's weird and wonderful archive
Attribution
England
Posted
29 December 2024
London's disappeared department stores of days gone by
Attribution
London
Posted
27 December 2024
'It's another London tradition that will go'
Attribution
London
Posted
30 November 2024
Weird in the Wade. The Haunted Pound Stretcher. Audio, 53 minutes
A Biggleswade shop gets more than it bargained for when a poltergeist takes up residence
Attribution
BBC Sounds
Available for over a year
How 'tape letters' kept families in Scotland and Pakistan in touch. Video, 00:02:46
Attribution
Scotland
Posted
3 October 2024
Mudlarks find 152-year-old Boat Race medal
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England
Posted
1 October 2024
Eating on the hoof: London's long history of street food
Attribution
London
Posted
28 September 2024
Bristol's hidden history of forgery and tragic deaths
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Bristol
Posted
21 September 2024
Don’t hop me now: London’s lost summer harvest holiday
Attribution
BBC
Posted
12 September 2024
The curious history of filming the sneeze. Video, 00:04:17
Attribution
BBC
Posted
29 August 2024
Postcard delivered 121 years late reunites family
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Wales
Posted
29 August 2024
Illuminated. Sybil Phoenix, a Civil Life. Audio, 29 minutes
A radio portrait of Sybil Phoenix, the first black woman to receive an MBE, in 1972.
Attribution
BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
Illuminated. Becoming German. Audio, 29 minutes
British Jews are taking back the German citizenship that was stripped from their forebears
Attribution
BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
Fifty-Fifty Vision. Audio, 28 minutes
How has our rapidly changing world altered blind and partially sighted people's lives?
Attribution
BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
Hampton Court: Ordinary lives and extraordinary times
Attribution
London
Posted
14 July 2024