Vanessa Collingridge and the team answer listener’s historical queries and celebrate the way in which we all ‘make’ history.
Programme 13.
26 June 2007
Culloden
The programme came from the Culloden battle site near Inverness in Scotland where the National Trust for Scotland is building a new visitor centre which will be opened in the autumn of 2007.
In the lead up to the ban on smoking in public places in England on Sunday 1st July (2207), Making History’s Nick Baker went to Eton to hear how, in the seventeenth century, boys were punished for not smoking.
The thinking was that the owners of tobacco shops did not appear to be susceptible to the plague.
Making History consulted Sir Eric Anderson, Provost of Eton; and James Walton, Editor of the Faber Book of Smoking
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. 