Social history

How 'tape letters' kept families in Scotland and Pakistan in touch. Video, 00:02:46
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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
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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
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BBC
Posted
12 September 2024
The curious history of filming the sneeze. Video, 00:04:17
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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.
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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
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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?
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BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
Hampton Court: Ordinary lives and extraordinary times
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London
Posted
14 July 2024
'Busting myths' about family, sex and work
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Cambridgeshire
Posted
11 July 2024
Lost landmark pub statue set for restoration
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Nottinghamshire
Posted
29 June 2024
Vintage 1938 Tube train back on track after vandalism
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London
Posted
27 June 2024
Archive on 4. Fitted and Kitted. Audio, 57 minutes
Rattling the archive drawers of 100 years of British kitchens.
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BBC Radio 4
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Vintage 1938 Tube train vandalised before heritage trip
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London
Posted
10 June 2024
Women join historic freemen ceremony for first time
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Wales
Posted
8 June 2024
Shortlist announced for Docklands slavery memorial
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London
Posted
6 June 2024
Exhibition celebrates 120 years of City heritage
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Hull & East Yorkshire
Posted
4 June 2024
The woman who sold time - and the man who tried to stop her
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London
Posted
27 May 2024
Archive on 4. Watching Us, Watching You. Audio, 57 minutes
Ellen E Jones reassesses the BBC's public access TV project, the Community Programme Unit.
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BBC Radio 4
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The man hanged for printing his own ace of spades
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London
Posted
19 May 2024
What's the future for Aberfan chapel with tragic past?
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Wales
Posted
19 May 2024