Archive for December 15th, 2008
Vanessa Harding on “In Our Time”
Monday, December 15th, 2008Professor Vanessa Harding was a panellist on Thursday the 11th of December 2008′s Radio 4 programme ‘In Our Time’ chaired by Melvyn Bragg. The subject was the Great Fire of London. The programme is available from the BBC Radio 4 website: here.
CELL Christmas Podcast
Monday, December 15th, 2008The Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL) has released Dr Amanda Vickery’s 2008 HarperCollins History Lecture as a podcast. ‘Out of the Closet: Love, Power and Houses in Eighteenth-Century England’ gives a tantalizing glimpse of early modern domesticity. Listen as Amanda explores ideas of taste, furnishings (including chintz) and hierarchy against a thrilling backdrop [...]