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Making History
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Begins Tuesday 19 April 2005, 3.00-3.30 p.m |
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Sue Cook and the team answer listeners' historical queries and celebrate the way in which we all 'make' history. |
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Series 11 |
Programme 12
5 July 2005 |
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The Cappers' Guild
Who were the people behind the Cappers' Chapel in the old Coventry cathedral?
Making History went to Coventry and discovered that the Coventry Cappers were an influential guild in the city in the early 1500s. Their trade was in woollen caps, but this began to die out with the introduction of felt.
Making History consulted Dr Heather Swanson, who works at the University of Birmingham and the Open University, about the influence of the guild system on life in the towns of the late Middle Ages. Heather is the author of Medieval British Towns (Palgrave, formerly Macmillan Press, 1999)
Useful links
Further reading
Andrew Butcher and Peter Brown, The Age of Saturn (Blackwell, 1991)
Christopher Dyer, Everyday Life in Medieval England (Hambledon and London, 1994)
John Maddicott and David Palliser, editors, The Medieval State (Hambledon and London, 2000)
D.M. Palliser, Peter Clark and Martin Daunton, editors, The Cambridge Urban History of Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
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Hector Protector
What are the origins of this nursery rhyme?
Making History's Ivan Howlett explained how it is now thought that the rhyme refers to Richard, Duke of York (1411-1460), claimant to the English throne and Lord Protector of England during the troubled reign of Henry VI.
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Local history hero
Gwyn Griffiths of Pontypridd has researched the history of the Breton onion sellers who started coming to the UK to escape the poverty of Brittany in 1828 and were a common sight right up until the 1970s.
Gathering the Jewels, the website for Welsh cultural history, has pictures of Breton onion sellers:
Further reading
Onion Men (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, Llanrwst) ISBN 0-86381-783-1.Ìý
Le Monde des Johnnies (Editions le Telegramme, Brest) ISBN 2-914552-82-3.
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Vanessa has presentedÌýscience and current affairs programmes for ±«Óãtv, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Discovery and has presented for ±«Óãtv Radio 4 & Five Live and a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday, Scotsman and Sunday Herald.Ìý