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Making History
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Tuesday 3.00-3.30 p.m |
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Nick Baker and the team answer listeners' historical queries and celebrate the way in which we all 'make' history. |
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Programme 8 |
5 DecemberÌýÌý2006 |
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Common Graves
A Making History listener has discovered that one of his ancestors was buried in a ‘common grave’ as late as 1905. When did this practice stop he ask?
Making History consulted
Useful information on
Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870–1914, Julie-Marie Strange
Published by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 9780521838573 | ISBN-10: 0521838576
Information about researching cemeteries from theÌý
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Introduced Species - The Coypu
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Richard Daniel reports on the introduction of the coypu (a South American rodent) into East Anglia in the late 1920’s for fur farming; its subsequent escape and the fifty year campaign to eradicate it from the countryside.
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Researching Trades
Family historian Paul Blake joined Nick Baker to talk about some of the common problems facing researchers when trying to decipher the trades people worked in from hand-written records.
Useful links include:
Useful publications
Blake & Collins Who was your Granny’s Granny? Foulsham (2204) ISBN: 057202875X
Hurley, Beryl, (Ed.). The Book of Trades: Or Library of Useful Arts: Vol 1, Devizes, Wiltshire, Wiltshire Family History Society (1991) 63 pp. [ISBN 0951225340]
Hurley, Beryl, (Ed.). The Book of Trades: Or Library of Useful Arts: Vol 2, Devizes, Wiltshire, Wiltshire Family History Society (1992) 63 pp. [ISBN 0951225359]
Hurley, Beryl, (Ed.). The Book of Trades: Or Library of Useful Arts: Vol 3, Devizes, Wiltshire, Wiltshire Family History Society (1994) 52 pp. [ISBN 1898714029]
Raymond, Stuart A. Occupational sources for genealogists: a bibliography, Birmingham, Federation of Family History Societies (1996) 81 pp. [ISBN: 1860060366]
Waters, Colin and Titford, John. A Dictionary of Old Trades, Titles and Occupations, Countryside Books (2002) 302 pp. [ISBN 1 85306 601 X]
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Vanessa has presentedÌýscience and current affairs programmes for 91Èȱ¬, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Discovery and has presented for 91Èȱ¬ Radio 4 & Five Live and a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday, Scotsman and Sunday Herald.Ìý