Swish… thwack. After the war, one British tradition continued unabated: beating children in schools. It wasn’t until the early 1990s that it was completely outlawed. Why was the UK so attached to corporal punishment and what it did it take to change the law?
Ros Taylor talks to journalist Andrew Brown, who was beaten as a boy, and University of Sheffield his ... Show More
Mar 2025
Women killers of the early modern era
From true crime pamphlets to reports from the scaffold, early modern Britain was gripped by tales of women who killed. But were these cases as common as they seemed, or was something else at play? Speaking to Lauren Good, historian Blessin Adams explores the obsession with female ... Show More
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Dec 2024
Sex Life & Scandal of Charles Dickens
<p>Like it or not, there's no escaping Charles Dickens at this time of year.</p><br><p>But who was the man behind classics such as A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist and of course, A Christmas Carol?</p><br><p>His life is as rich as many of the characters' stories in one of his b ... Show More
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<p>Accessing stories from the past can be difficult, but how do we access <em>smells</em> from the past?</p><br><p>In today's episode, Kate is joined by Eleanor Jackson, curator of a new British Library exhibition, <a href="https://medievalwomen.seetickets.com/time ... Show More
