Nick Baker and the team answer listeners' historical queries and celebrate the way in which we all 'make' history.
Programme 7
28 November 2006
Manchester House
Making History listener Pippa Francis contacted the programme to ask whether someone could explain how the space in her 1870’s Victorian semi would’ve been used when it was first built.
Professor Chris Wrigley at the University of Nottingham answered a listener’s query about a family member moving from South Wales to Loughborough to find work by arguing that not all of the UK suffered economic depression in the thirties. Indeed there were pockets of prosperity in the manufacturing areas of the Midlands and South East that were not dependent on exports but rather met domestic demand for cars and electrical goods in particular.
Richard Daniel reported on how the Duke of Bedford imported Muntjac Deer from China in the late nineteenth century and how they found their way into the wild.
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Introduced Species
Making History investigated recent research into the introduction of the rabbit and consulted Julie Curl of the Norfolk Archaeological Unit; Simon Parfitt of the Natural History Museum and Naomi Sykes at the University of Nottingham.
Vanessa has presented science and current affairs programmes for BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Discovery and has presented for BBC Radio 4 & Five Live and a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday, Scotsman and Sunday Herald.
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Vanessa has presented science and current affairs programmes for BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Discovery and has presented for BBC Radio 4 & Five Live and a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday, Scotsman and Sunday Herald. 