Making History
Series exploring ordinary people's links with the past
Making History - 01/04/2008
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past. Writer Alison Weir gives some guidance on John Tiptoft to a Midland re-enactment troupe.
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Making History - 01/06/2010
Strange marks on the moors near Sheffield reveal a hidden military history. Vanessa Collingridge presents more of your stories that change the way we see the past.
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Making History - 02/02/2010
Vanessa Collingridge asks listeners to suggest objects that help tell A History of the World. Today a writing tablet from Roman Cumbria and an original blueprint for garden suburbs.
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Making History - 02/06/2009
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 02/10/2007
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 02/12/2008
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 03/06/2008
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 03/11/2009
The different histories of marriage and divorce in England and Scotland; a listener's ground-breaking research into a placename that's linked to the Welsh cattle drovers.
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Making History - 04/11/2008
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 04/12/2007
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 05/05/2009
Presented by Vanessa Collingridge. Could a leaf collection in Southport provide valuable material for climate researchers?
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Making History - 05/10/2010
Vanessa Collingridge investigates the French invasion that never was; why men became midwives; and a remarkable diary that sheds new light on the London blitz.
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Making History - 06/05/2008
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 06/07/2010
A special programme marking the success of the History of the World Project, and questioning the future of museums in a cash-strapped digital age.
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Making History - 06/10/2009
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 06/11/2007
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 07/04/2009
Vanessa Collingridge presents. Could a listener's hotel in North Wales once have been the court of the 13th-century Welsh leader Llewellyn the Great?
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Making History - 07/09/2010
Today: the first modern battle and the first modern map that depicted it, plus bread or blood in nineteenth century East Anglia.
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Making History - 07/10/2008
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 08/04/2008
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 08/06/2010
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past. Did climate change encourage Viking marauders to the east coast and beyond?
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Making History - 09/02/2010
Vanessa Collingridge asks listeners to suggest objects that help tell A History of The World.
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Making History - 09/06/2009
One of the few surviving members of the British whaling fleet recalls life on South Georgia, and Professor Tom Williamson reveals the rich history of a now almost lost hamlet.
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Making History - 09/10/2007
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 09/12/2008
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 10/04/2007
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 10/06/2008
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 10/11/2009
Vanessa Collingridge and the team investigate the impact of racial segregation in the American armed forces in Britain during WWII.
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Making History - 11/11/2008
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 11/12/2007
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 12/05/2009
How the experiences of a painter and decorator from Sale in 19th-century China reveals more about the spread of religion in that period. Vanessa Collingridge presents.
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Making History - 12/10/2010
How opium helped fund the Empire, why Catholics left Dorset after the Napoleonic Wars and the Sheffield teenager who have Houdini his greatest trick.
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Making History - 13/05/2008
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 13/10/2009
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past. Is the skin that binds a book in Bristol the gruesome remains of a listener's ancestor?
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Making History - 13/11/2007
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 14/04/2009
Listener Bridget Long tries to confirm a family story, that her late father played oboe in the premiere of a piece of work by Benjamin Britten while being held in a German POW camp.
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Making History - 14/09/2010
Today, the link between Charlotte Bronte and a medical revolution in Manchester; how royalty helped the working class to divorce; and a silent witness to the War of the Roses.
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Making History - 14/10/2008
A listener's letter takes the Making History team to Eyemouth in Scotland.
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Making History - 15/04/2008
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 15/06/2010
Vanessa Collingridge presents more of your stories that change the way we see the past. Join in and help with our search for old advertising or 'ghost signs'.
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Making History - 16/02/2010
Vanessa Collingridge asks listeners to suggest objects that help tell A History Of The World.
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Making History - 16/06/2009
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 16/10/2007
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 16/12/2008
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 17/04/2007
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 17/06/2008
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 17/11/2009
Vanessa Collingridge investigates the life and times of Hildegard von Bingen, the 12th-century polymath, and Lady Blanche Scott Douglas's epic flight to India.
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Making History - 18/05/2010
Presented by Vanessa Collingridge. Including the Somerset bootmaker who changed medical history, and can fiction unravel historical fact?
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Making History - 18/11/2008
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 18/12/2007
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 19/01/2010
Vanessa Collingridge brings together objects from around the UK that are making A History of The World, including a 9th-century bell in Northern Ireland.
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Making History - 19/05/2009
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past. The story of John Bellingham, the only person to murder a British Prime Minister.
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Making History - 19/10/2010
British civilians held captive by the Japanese, Stonehenge as a pre-historic visitor attraction, booze in the Victorian hospital and the life and times of Ugo Forbes.
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Making History - 20/05/2008
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 20/10/2009
Vanessa Collingridge joins the residents of Mildenhall in Suffolk as they remember the early aviators who took part in an air race to Melbourne in 1934.
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Making History - 20/11/2007
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 21/04/2009
Military historian Professor Richard Holmes explains how the militia worked in the 18th century, and Andy Cassell reports from Scotland on Britain's only private army.
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Making History - 21/09/2010
Vanessa Collingridge reveals how labour camps were used to deal with unemployment in the 1930s; how walking became a Victorian entertainment; and celebrates our oldest cinema.
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Making History - 21/10/2008
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 22/04/2008
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 23/02/2010
Vanessa Collingridge asks listeners to suggest objects that help tell A History of The World.
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Making History - 23/06/2009
Presented by Vanessa Collingridge. Featuring a listener's search for justice for an ancestor who was a hero during a dramatic mine rescue in 19th-century Wales.
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Making History - 23/10/2007
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 23/12/2008
Vanessa Collingridge visits Southall, Middlesex, to take listeners' questions.
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Making History - 24/06/2008
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 25/05/2010
How did the 18th-century Enlightenment change Edinburgh for good? Vanessa Collingridge presents more of your stories that change the way we see the past.
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Making History - 25/11/2008
Vanessa Collingridge investigates the story of a 19th-century attempt at a new European order in Sheffield.
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Making History - 25/12/2007
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 26/01/2010
Vanessa Collingridge pulls together more objects from A History of the World, including the nurse's uniform worn by one of only eight women to land with the troops on D-Day.
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Making History - 26/05/2009
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 26/10/2010
What has the A History of the World project done for history in Britain? Vanessa is joined by a panel made up of a writer, archaeologist and curator to discuss its legacy.
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Making History - 27/05/2008
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 27/10/2009
Vanessa Collingridge explores ordinary people's links with the past. Are some green lanes and place names in southern England a reminder of an earlier Welsh invasion?
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Making History - 27/11/2007
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 28/04/2009
Vanessa Collingridge explores ordinary people's links with the past. Professor Mark Stoyle goes in search of the Civil War dead from the bitter siege of Lyme Regis.
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Making History - 28/09/2010
Vanessa Collingridge examines the worldwide impact of Methodism and travels to Manchester to find out more about a Jacobite uprising.
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Making History - 28/10/2008
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 29/04/2008
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 29/06/2010
A faded slogan painted on the side of a house in a Norfolk market town reveals an unsavoury fascist past. Presented by Vanessa Collingridge.
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Making History - 30/06/2009
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 30/09/2008
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 30/10/2007
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 30/12/2008
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - 31/08/2010
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past. The little known story of a Cold War secret army.
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Making History - Episode 1
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - Episode 10
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - Episode 11
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - Episode 12
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - Episode 13
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - Episode 4
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - Episode 5
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - Episode 6
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - Episode 7
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - Episode 8
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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Making History - Episode 9
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
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