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Five Hundred Years of Friendship Episodes

  1.

    The Lonely Cyborg

    15/15 How the old and the young are navigating friendships through new technology today.

  2. Families of Choice

    14/15 How 1970s gender politics changed friendship and how popular culture reflected this change

  3. In Need, In Deed, By Post

    13/15 Dr Thomas Dixon explores Second World War friendships by correspondence and in the Forces.

  4. The Suburbs of the Heart

    12/15 The impact of technology and psychology on early 20th-century friendship.

  5. Testaments of Friendship

    11/15 Dr Thomas Dixon explores how the international friendship movement flourished after WWI.

  6. A Battalion of Pals

    10/15 Dr Thomas Dixon explores the impact of World War One on male friendship.

  7. Comrades and Lovers

    9/15 Exploring the Victorian borderland between Platonic friendship and homosexual love.

  8. Darwin's Best Friend

    8/15 Thomas Dixon explores the origins of the idea of friendships between humans and animals.

  9. Felons and Oddfellows

    6/15 Dr Thomas Dixon explores friendship and self-help among the 19th-century poor.

  10. When William Met Mary

    5/15 The 18th-century origins of a famous question about men, women and friendship.

  11. Webs of Loyalty

    4/15 New 18th-century ideas about 'what friends are for'.

  12. Love Your Enemies

    3/15 Dr Thomas Dixon explores Biblical contradictions on friendship.

  13. A Marriage of Minds

    2/15 Dr Thomas Dixon explores the history of friendship over the centuries.

  14. Gossips and Goodfellows

    1/15 Dr Thomas Dixon compares social networks in the 16th century with those of today.

  15. Education of the Heart

    The dangers of friendship as conveyed to children in the 18th and 19th centuries.