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60 minutes
Released:
Aug 28, 2007
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Description
When you have been researching family history for even a short time, you will realise that the information shown on certificates is not always completely accurate! Sometimes this is the result of an honest mistake, or misinterpretation of the question; sometimes people are being 'economical with the truth'; and sometimes they just tell outright lies. Why? The answer is usually to do with money or sex, and sometimes both.
Released:
Aug 28, 2007
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
The problem of the poor: faith, science and poverty in 19th century Britain: Dr. John Shaw discusses Victorian attitudes to the poor and how they developed over the 19th century. As the Church tried to decide whether charity was the solution or part of the problem, Victorian science afraid of 'degeneration' in Britain began to sug by The National Archives Podcast Series