A History of Private Life
Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals the hidden history of home over 400 years, drawing on first-hand accounts from letters and diaries
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A History of Private Life
Tom Sutcliffe chairs a discussion programme about the meaning of home today.
A History of Private Life
How women came to see laundry and the linen cupboard as part of their moral mission.
A History of Private Life
Prof Vickery explores the enduring pull of a home of one's own.
A History of Private Life
The poignant and hilarious story of law student Dudley Ryder and his search for a wife.
A History of Private Life
Two 18th-century marriages and how the husbands prepared new houses for their bride.
A History of Private Life
Family music-making was a way of creating domestic harmony.
A History of Private Life
The dark side of private life, and how home became a trap.
A History of Private Life
Prof Vickery listens to the experiences of those who moved to the suburbs.
A History of Private Life
Prof Vickery explores home education from the perspective of mother and child.
A History of Private Life
Elaborate rituals of locking up at night protected the house from burglars.
A History of Private Life
Prof Vickery explores the kind of homes the British struggled to create in India.
A History of Private Life
By the 17th century, privacy meant withdrawing into a closet - literally.
A History of Private Life
Housewives of the past were expected to concoct medicines which would cure any condition.
A History of Private Life
The story of a celebrity divorce - a scandal, because the husband was the prime minister.
A History of Private Life
Not everyone adhered to polite etiquette - these are the stories of family 'black sheep'.
A History of Private Life
The household diaries of Elizabeth Shackleton, trying to run a house in Lancashire.
A History of Private Life
The homes of 19th-century people lower down the social scale.
A History of Private Life
Sewing was believed to be part of a wife's essential duty in the 17th and 18th century.
A History of Private Life
Why do pots and pans matter?
A History of Private Life
How eccentric homes reflected wider 18th-century ideas about science and nature.
A History of Private Life
Stories from adultery cases about women sneaking lovers into the house.
A History of Private Life
Many servants in the 18th century didn't even have a bed of their own.
A History of Private Life
Amanda Vickery tells the story of an admirable and disabled spinster.
A History of Private Life
The story of an 18th-century couple who spend life doing up their magnificent houses.
A History of Private Life
Thanks to the introduction of tea, even people who were not rich could afford to entertain
A History of Private Life
The very heart of private life, as illustrated by extracts from 16th-century diaries.
A History of Private Life
The Victorians contrived increasingly ingenious ways to domesticate nature.
A History of Private Life
The hierarchy within the home was supposed to reflect the well-ordered society outside it.
A History of Private Life
Witchcraft trials reveal people's darkest fears and how their homes protected them.
A History of Private Life
The story of two different widowers and their desperate search for a new wife.
A History of Private Life
How the richest widow in 18th-century England spent her late husband's coal fortune.