Opening Up Information, Culture, Technology & Sociology
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- Episode
- Well Connected 2
- Broadcast Info
- 2001 (29 mins)
- Description
- In this edition of ‘Well Connected’, Mariella Frostrup investigates how amateur and academic historians are using technology to revolutionise their researches.
She meets a professional singer who went looking on the internet for information on the father she never knew, and ended up re-uniting a family that had been torn apart by the second world war and the cold war.
Then she joins a group of local historians who are using the internet to help document their village’s past and in particular solve the mystery of a missing manor house. Their village’s 17th Century hall was dismantled and shipped to the USA in the 1920s. They want it back, and with the assistance of an internet-savvy academic and the global reach of the internet, they think they can find it.
re-uniting families local historians internet research manor house sold to USA - Genre
- International Development; Technology; Computing
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The Open University, "Opening Up Information, Culture, Technology & Sociology". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/7144 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)