Five Hundred Years of FriendshipEpisodes Episode guide
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The Lonely Cyborg
15/15How the old and the young are navigating friendships through new technology today.
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Families of Choice
14/15How 1970s gender politics changed friendship and how popular culture reflected this change
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In Need, In Deed, By Post
13/15Dr Thomas Dixon explores Second World War friendships by correspondence and in the Forces.
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The Suburbs of the Heart
12/15The impact of technology and psychology on early 20th-century friendship.
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Testaments of Friendship
11/15Dr Thomas Dixon explores how the international friendship movement flourished after WWI.
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A Battalion of Pals
10/15Dr Thomas Dixon explores the impact of World War One on male friendship.
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Comrades and Lovers
9/15Exploring the Victorian borderland between Platonic friendship and homosexual love.
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Darwin's Best Friend
8/15Thomas Dixon explores the origins of the idea of friendships between humans and animals.
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Felons and Oddfellows
6/15Dr Thomas Dixon explores friendship and self-help among the 19th-century poor.
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When William Met Mary
5/15The 18th-century origins of a famous question about men, women and friendship.
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Webs of Loyalty
4/15New 18th-century ideas about 'what friends are for'.
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Love Your Enemies
3/15Dr Thomas Dixon explores Biblical contradictions on friendship.
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A Marriage of Minds
2/15Dr Thomas Dixon explores the history of friendship over the centuries.
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Gossips and Goodfellows
1/15Dr Thomas Dixon compares social networks in the 16th century with those of today.
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Education of the Heart
The dangers of friendship as conveyed to children in the 18th and 19th centuries.

