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Amanda Vickery - 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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  • The research behind the series

    The research behind the series

    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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  • Music from the series

    Music from the series

    Music researcher Wiebke Thormahlen on adding aural colour to the programmes.

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  • Radio 4 Blog

    Go behind the scenes with programme producer Elizabeth Burke.

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