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Kith and Kin

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Amanda Vickery traces the history of the family through four centuries

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Kith and Kin - Mad About the Boy

Amanda Vickery traces the history of the family through four centuries. How the son of a wealthy East India Company trader went off the straight and narrow.

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Kith and Kin - The Greatest Grandmothers

Amanda Vickery traces the history of the family through four centuries. Why did grannie become such a formidable figure in Victorian times?

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Kith and Kin - The Real Fanny Price

Amanda Vickery traces the history of the family through four centuries. Jane Austen's favourite of all her heroines was Fanny Price in Mansfield Park.

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Kith and Kin - You Are to Know that I Am Your Father

The 17th-century diarist and gardener John Evelyn struggled to shape his son into a worthy heir and was bitterly disappointed - so he started the project again with his grandson.

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