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Breaking the seal: The ownership of landBBC

By Bettany Hughes (Guest), Professor Harold Fox (Guest), Dr Leigh Shaw-Taylor (Guest), Phillipp Schofield (Guest), Simon Leatherdale (Guest)

20 March 2000

Land records provide a direct link to the upheavals of the past, as Bettany Hughes discovered. Read more : Breaking the seal: The ownership of land

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Legal documents as historical recordBBC

By Bettany Hughes (Guest), Professor Michael Clanchy (Guest), Professor Vic Gatrell (Guest), Professor Jim Sharpe (Guest), Dr Ruth Paley (Guest)

13 March 2000

Bettany Hughes and the Breaking The Seal team uncovered just how much information is hidden away in legal records. Read more : Legal documents as historical record

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Church recordsBBC

By Bettany Hughes (Guest)

06 March 2000

Bettany Hughes reveals what church records can tell us about life in the past. Read more : Church records

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Military records: Witnesses to historyBBC

By Bettany Hughes (Guest), Ken Gibb (Guest), William Spencer (Guest), Professor David Carpenter (Guest)

28 February 2000

Military records have historical value - and not just to those interested in wars and armies... Read more : Military records: Witnesses to history

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What can we learn from tax records?BBC

By Bettany Hughes (Guest), Priscilla Burton (Guest), Nigel Knott (Guest), Professor Andrew Prescott (Guest), Professor Patrick K O'Brien (Guest), Dr David Grummitt (Guest), Elizabeth Parkinson (Guest)

21 February 2000

Tax returns might bring little but misery, but they hold a lot of interest for the historian. Read more : What can we learn from tax records?

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Opening The Domesday BookProduction team

By Bettany Hughes (Guest), Elizabeth Hallam Smith (Guest), Ann Williams (Guest), Dr David Roffe (Guest), Professor Stephen Rippon (Guest), Dr Katharine Keats-Rohan (Guest), Professor Michael Clanchy (Guest), Rod Massingham (Guest)

14 February 2000

Perhaps the most famous census ever, the Domesday Inquest was more than just a single book... Read more : Opening The Domesday Book

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Historian Bettany Hughes holds a visiting fellowship with King's College London. She has written widely, and presented numerous television and radio programmes on history, including The Open University's Breaking The Seal.

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Articles [6]

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Breaking the seal: The ownership of landBBC

Legal documents as historical recordBBC

Church recordsBBC

Military records: Witnesses to historyBBC

What can we learn from tax records?BBC

Opening The Domesday BookProduction team

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