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Making History
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 Tuesday 3.00-3.30 p.m |
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Vanessa Collingridge and the team answer listener’s historical queries and celebrate the way in which we all ‘make’ history. |
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Programme 11 |
10ÌýJuneÌý2008 |
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Vanessa Collingridge and the team discuss listeners' historical queries and celebrate the many ways in which we all 'make' history.
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The Great Thames Disaster
Making History listener Carole Trowbridge contacted the programme to find out a pleasure boat disaster on the Thames on 3rd September 1878 in which around 600 people died.
Her great, great grandfather was the Captain of a paddle steamer the Princess Alice which was returning to central London after taking day trippers down the river to places such as Gravesend. She had almost completed her journey when at 7.40pm the steam collier Bywell Castle collided with her and cut her in two. She sank in minutes.
The tragedy led to changes in navigation laws on Britain’s inland waterways, forcing boats to pass each other ‘port to port’.
Making History consulted the maritime historian Hannah Cunliffe and Frances Ward of the Greenwich Heritage Centre.
Useful Links
- ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ h2g2
- Port Cities, LondonÌý
- Account by W T VincentÌý
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Who were the Jutes?
The period between the end of the Roman occupation in Britain and the Norman Conquest is often dominated in general text books by the Angles and the Saxons. But what of the Europeans who invaded Kent and the Isle of Wight in the 5th century – the Jutes?
Making History consulted Professor Barbara Yorke at the University of Winchester who explained that the idea of 'the Jutes' may well be more of a British construct than an identifiable European community – i.e. a 'Jutish' identity may well have developed once these people had arrived in south east England. Bede provides our first evidence:
'Those who came over were of three of the more powerful peoples of Germany: the Saxons, the Angles and the Jutes. From the Jutes are descended the men of Kent, the Victuarri (that is to say the people who inhabit the Isle of Wight) and that people who are today called the Jutes and are located in the kingdom of the West Saxons, opposite the Isle of Wight. From the Saxons (that is to say from that area which is now called Old Saxony) came the East Saxons, the South Saxons and the West Saxons. Next, from the Angles (that is to say from the country which is called Angulus and which is said to have remained deserted from that time to the present, between the lands of the Jutes and those of the Saxons) are descended the East Angles, the Middle Angles, the Mercians, all the race of the Northumbrians (that is to say of those peoples who live to the north of the river Humber), and the other Anglian peoples.'
Historia Ecclesiastica, completed in 731 AD.
Professor Yorke argues that the Jutes were, almost literally, squeezed out by the expanding Saxon kingdom of Wessex and some academics (notably Robin Bush) have even suggested that they were victims of early 'ethnic cleansing'.
Useful links
- ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Legacies
- Channel 4's Time Team
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Making History wants to visit you!
Later this summer and early autumn we want to record three of four edition of Making History on location.
We’re looking for three or four surprising stories from different historical periods in one particular part of Britain.
If you have a suggestion, please do get in touch.
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Contact ÌýMaking History |
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Use this link to email Vanessa Collingridge and the team: email Making History
Write to: Making History
³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 4
PO Box 3096
Brighton
BN1 1TU
Telephone: 08700 100 400
Making History is produced by Nick Patrick and is a Pier Production. |
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Vanessa has presentedÌýscience and current affairs programmes for ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Discovery and has presented for ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 4 & Five Live and a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday, Scotsman and Sunday Herald.Ìý