New Thinking: Researching a House Through Time

Sep 28, 2021 · 37m 39s
New Thinking: Researching a House Through Time
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From a "monthly nurse" registered in the census, to local newspaper reports of strikes and industrial accidents, an auction of household goods and furniture to the records of an asylum:...

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From a "monthly nurse" registered in the census, to local newspaper reports of strikes and industrial accidents, an auction of household goods and furniture to the records of an asylum: just some of the sources and stories that have gone into the most recent programmes broadcast in the BBC TV series A House Through Time. In this podcast exploring the research process, producer Kat Feavers and freelance researcher and historian Melanie Backe-Hansen share some of the work that goes on behind the scenes with presenter John Gallagher, including a discussion about why house numbers can be misleading, some of the family histories which didn't make it on air and the difficulties of finding proof when interpreting some historical records.

A House Through Time is made for the BBC by the twenty twenty production company and you can see episodes of series 4 on the i player now
A book from the series is now available co-written by Melanie and the presenter David Olusoga
Melanie Backe-Hansen's website is http://www.house-historian.co.uk/
This podcast is made in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) which is part of UKRI.

A playlist on the Free Thinking programme website called New Research collects all the episodes together https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03zws90
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