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The history hidden in British heritage sites

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4.3 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Fatima Manji talks about her new book Hidden Heritage: Rediscovering Britain’s Lost Love of the Orient, which explores the objects and landmarks that are often obscured by the traditional stories told in many heritage sites, and how they point to a more complex British history.   (Ad) Fatima Manji is the author of Hidden Heritage: Rediscovering Britain’s Lost Love of the Orient (Chatto & Windus, 2021). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hidden-Heritage-Rediscovering-Britains-Orient/dp/1784742910/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-hexpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.

0:05.0

A bit of a different thing going on this week.

0:07.3

You've been immature and you've lied.

0:10.3

And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.

0:13.9

I was trying to manipulate you.

0:15.7

Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.

0:18.1

I know, I'd be like, are you joking?

0:20.6

I don't know.

0:21.7

I guess you'd have to ask. Someone that has sex. Someone that has sex. Right. And remember,

0:27.5

it's just between us. Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

0:51.0

I'm Ellie Cawthorne.

0:57.2

Why was there a Turkish mosque adorning Kew Gardens in the 18th century?

1:02.5

This lost structure is just one of the landmarks and relics considered in a new book by broadcaster Fatima Manji.

1:08.6

She joined us to talk about her journey across Britain,

1:11.8

searching for items and places that re-contextualise Britain's historical relationship with

1:17.0

people of the Orient and point to a more complex national history. Putting the questions to

1:23.2

Fatima was our acting digital editor, Eleanor Evans. I wanted to start by asking you first,

1:29.8

Fatima, if you could introduce your book to our listeners and what it's attempting to do.

1:34.7

Thanks, Helena, and it's lovely to be with you. So my book is essentially a journey through

1:40.5

Britain, where I find objects and places that reveal rarely told histories

1:45.9

about Britain. And I do this through objects and places in what I call heritage sites,

1:51.6

so museums, galleries, stately homes. And all of these objects and places are linked to what we

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