New Thinking: Researching a House Through Time
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
From a "monthly nurse" registered in the census, to local newspaper reports of strikes and industrial accidents, an auction of household goods and furniture to the records of an asylum: just some of the sources and stories that have gone into the most recent programmes broadcast in the BBC TV series A House Through Time. In this podcast exploring the research process, producer Kat Feavers and freelance researcher and historian Melanie Backe-Hansen share some of the work that goes on behind the scenes with presenter John Gallagher, including a discussion about why house numbers can be misleading, some of the family histories which didn't make it on air and the difficulties of finding proof when interpreting some historical records.
A House Through Time is made for the BBC by the twenty twenty production company and you can see episodes of series 4 on the i player now A book from the series is now available co-written by Melanie and the presenter David Olusoga Melanie Backe-Hansen's website is http://www.house-historian.co.uk/ This podcast is made in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) which is part of UKRI.
A playlist on the Free Thinking programme website called New Research collects all the episodes together https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03zws90
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| 0:35.0 | Hello. Have you ever wondered about who used to live in your house before you? What histories are |
| 0:40.9 | lurking behind the wallpaper or underneath the floorboards? That's the idea behind the hit |
| 0:46.0 | BBC TV series A House Through Time, presented by David Olashoga. And in today's new thinking |
| 0:52.3 | episode of the Arts and Ideas podcast, I'm talking to the researchers |
| 0:56.1 | who uncover the stories of these homes and their inhabitants. So if you want to get some tips |
| 1:01.9 | on how to do your own sleuthing or just find out some behind-the-scenes stories, do stay tuned. |
| 1:07.5 | If you haven't been following the program, here's a short clip to give you a taster. |
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