News and current affairs. With Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Thought for the Day. 
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Programme Guests
Tom Holland is joined in the Making History studio by:
Dr Katy Layton Jones from the University of Leicester
Dr Jonathan Andrews from the University of Newcastle -
Mental Health
Listener Sarah Gall tells how her great grandfather brought a more liberal regime to a lunatic asylum on the Isle of Man in the final years of the nineteenth century. Dr Jonathan Andrews puts this experience into its wider context, revealing how our treatment of people with mental illnesses was changing before the end of the eighteenth century.
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Parklife
A listener in Wales wants to know why, when the rest of Europe was swept by war and revolution, Victorian Britons were busy creating municipal parks?
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Fever Hospitals
Jane Philips in south London wants to know about 'fever hospitals'. What they were and whether there is any truth that they were built near gas-works as the smell helped patients with infectious diseases. Helen Castor met up with Dr Deborah Brunton from the Open University close to St Thomas' Hospital in London to find out more.
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Dr Sam Newton
This week's "Making Historians" features the Anglo-Saxon historian Dr Sam Newton and his love affair with the language and landscape of Sutton Hoo in Suffolk.
Broadcasts
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BBC Radio 4Tue 12 Feb 2013 15:00 BBC Radio 4
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Making History
Making History explores ordinary people's links with the past. The programme is presented by Helen...
