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A History of Private Life

Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals the hidden history of home over 400 years, drawing on first-hand accounts from letters and diaries

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Broadcast Fri, 6 Nov 2009, 15:45 on BBC Radio 4 but not available on BBC iPlayer.

30/30. Prof Vickery explores the enduring pull of a home of one's own.

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Amanda Vickery discusses how the History of Private Life was pieced together from courtship letters, confessions and wills, diaries and autobiographies, inventories, advertisements, burglary trials, and upholsterers' ledgers.

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