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OU on the BBC: Breaking the SealProduction team

By The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

13 April 2007

How can historical documents connect us with the past?  Read more : OU on the BBC: Breaking the Seal

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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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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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