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Free Thinking Episodes

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    New Thinking:Nature Writing

    From Gilbert White to lockdown blogs - why we need to spend more time in nature.

  2. New Thinking: Wordsworth

    Professors Sally Bushell & Simon Bainbridge talk to New Generation Thinker Sarah Jackson

  3. New Thinking: Women’s history

    The Clean Break theatre company, sex strikes, East European feminism: Naomi Paxton hosts

  4. New Thinking: Women’s history

    The Clean Break theatre company, sex strikes, East European feminism: Naomi Paxton hosts

  5. New Thinking: Women and Slavery

    Research on women owners, women on plantations, and the daughter of a slave trader

  6. New Thinking: What language did Columbus speak?

    John Gallagher and guests explore language in the 15th century age of exploration

  7. New Thinking: what do we learn from census stats?

    John Gallagher talks to four researchers uncovering lives from past census records

  8. New Thinking: Ways of Talking about Health

    The winners of the AHRC and Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Awards 2020

  9. New Thinking: Ways of Talking about Health

    The winners of the AHRC and Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Awards 2020

  10. New Thinking: Ways of Talking about Health

    The winners of the AHRC and Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Awards 2020

  11. New Thinking: Ways of Talking about Health

    Research from the winners of the AHRC and Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Awards 2020

  12. New Thinking: The Mayflower and Native American History

    Eleanor Barraclough explores the significance of the much mythologised Pilgrim voyage.

  13. New Thinking: The impact of being multilingual

    John Gallagher looks at creating in multiple tongues and the slipperiness of metaphor

  14. New Thinking: The Botanical Past

    From still life paintings to Kew Gardens, a new history of horticulture is being written

  15. New Thinking: Tackling Modern Slavery

    Naomi Paxton looks at new research into the effectiveness of the UK Act passed in 2015

  16. New Thinking: Stitching Stories

    Shahidha Bari visits a textile art show + research on embroidery, stage outfits, vintage

  17. New Thinking: Shakespeare's Life Lessons

    Scholars Emma Smith, Patrick Gray, and Emma Whipday find examples in different dramas

  18. New Thinking: Science Fiction

    Hetta Howes, Caroline Edwards & Amy Butt ask is science fiction the new realism?

  19. New Thinking: Religion and ordinary lives

    Tom Charlton looks for evidence of belief from samplers to children's scribbles in bibles

  20. New Thinking: Refugees

    What are the best shelters? the right language? what do we learn from self help in camps?

  21. New Thinking: Preserving Our Heritage

    From knitting patterns to greetings cards: Naomi Paxton looks at a series of UK archives

  22. New Thinking: Neolithic Revelations

    A lack of Neolithic dental floss proves to be a boon for archaeologists,

  23. New Thinking: Neolithic Revelations

    A lack of Neolithic dental floss proves to be a boon for archaeologists,

  24. New Thinking: Language, the Victorians and Us

    From Lancashire dialect protest poetry to Hardy's Dorset vowels. John Gallagher hosts.

  25. New Thinking: It all begins here? Understanding the Industrial Revolution

    John Gallagher discusses the Industrial Revolution with Emma Griffin and William Ashworth

  26. New Thinking: Hey Presto!

    Magic in medicine, surgery & business; panto cross-dressing; and panto & magic history

  27. New Thinking: Girls

    New research into ideas about girlhood and growing up - in film, fiction, art and society

  28. New Thinking: From life on Mars to space junk

    Seb Falk talks to researchers about our attitude to Mars,seeing colour and Skylab's crash

  29. New Thinking: First Encounters

    Why we need to rethink the stories we tell of Columbus, Pocahontas & the English in India

  30. New Thinking: Fashion Stories in Museums

    Shahidha Bari & V&A fashion curator Claire Wilcox on costumes, couture, and wardrobes

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