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The Lonely Cyborg
15/15How the old and the young are navigating friendships through new technology today.
Families of Choice
14/15How 1970s gender politics changed friendship and how popular culture reflected this change
In Need, In Deed, By Post
13/15Dr Thomas Dixon explores Second World War friendships by correspondence and in the Forces.
The Suburbs of the Heart
12/15The impact of technology and psychology on early 20th-century friendship.
Testaments of Friendship
11/15Dr Thomas Dixon explores how the international friendship movement flourished after WWI.
A Battalion of Pals
10/15Dr Thomas Dixon explores the impact of World War One on male friendship.
Comrades and Lovers
9/15Exploring the Victorian borderland between Platonic friendship and homosexual love.
Darwin's Best Friend
8/15Thomas Dixon explores the origins of the idea of friendships between humans and animals.
Education of the Heart
The dangers of friendship as conveyed to children in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Felons and Oddfellows
6/15Dr Thomas Dixon explores friendship and self-help among the 19th-century poor.
