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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 13
12ÌýJuly 2005 |
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Shopping in the Middle Ages
A listener from Kent asked about the divisions in some of our High Street trades, professions such as pork butchers and poulterers: when did they originate, and were they the product of medieval guilds?
Making History consulted the Leverhulme Professor of Comparative Metropolitan History at the institute of Historical Research in London, Derek Keene.
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Romans in Brazil?
Following on from a discussion about the possibility that the Romans travelled to China, a listener asks whether it is true that they also sailed to Brazil.
The evidence comes from amphorae found on the sea-bed in the so-called Bay of Jars near Rio de Janeiro. Amphorae are long, narrow clay containers, wider at the top than at the base, with two handles, and were used in ancient times especially for storing oil or wine.
Making History consulted Professor David Peacock, archaeologist at the University of Southampton.
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Further reading
R.F. Marx, Romans in Rio? (1984)
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Local history hero
This week's nominated local history hero is Julian Rawes who over 27 years has compiled a comprehensive record of memorial inscriptions in Gloucestershire's churches.
Further reading
'The Historical Importance of Churchyard Memorials' by Julian Rawes, Gloucestershire and District Archaeological Research Group
Archaeological Review No. 23 1998 (Editors Wills J and Rawes J), Transactions of the Bristol andÌýGloucestershire Archaeological Society Vol. 117 (2000)180-181 ISSN 0068-1032
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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