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Historian Amanda Vickery explores the kind of homes the British struggled to create in India during the age of empire.

Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals the hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of which have never been heard before. Including songs which have been specially recorded for the series.

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½s were exposed to huge forces of change in the 19th and 20th century, responding to industrialisation, pollution and the imperial mission. Prof Vickery explores how they remained idealised havens in a heartless, dirty world.

Prof Vickery explores the kind of homes the British struggled to create in India, using the diaries and letters of colonial settlers.

Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly and Simon Tcherniak.

Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David Owen Norris at the keyboard.

A Loftus production for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4.

15 minutes

Last on

Thu 2 Mar 2017 02:15

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  • Wed 4 Nov 2009 15:45
  • Fri 15 Feb 2013 14:15
  • Wed 21 Jan 2015 14:15
  • Thu 22 Jan 2015 00:15
  • Wed 1 Mar 2017 14:15
  • Thu 2 Mar 2017 02:15