Monthly Archives: March 2015

TV and radio listing for programmes on TV and radio related to be contemporary British history can be read here.

When I started this blog, it was part of my intention to develop a broad overview of how contemporary British history is perceived in the media.  This includes both the presentation of recent history in documentary and drama and its reinterpretation through the print and broadcast news.  This should stand alongside the academic historiography in mapping how the present conditions our understanding of the past.

This monitoring of how the past is viewed in a present-minded way has not featured on this blog as I had hoped, so I am reinstating a weekly preview of relevant TV and radio programmes.

Whether I can keep it up remains to be seen.

A listing of programmes for the week to Saturday 29^th March can be found on the TV and radio pages

A review of Back in Time for Dinner.  First programme (of six) (1950s) shown on BBC2 8pm 17^th March 2015 and continuing.

A review of the first instalment of BBC2’s history of post-war Britain through its kitchens can be read here.

A review of the Channel 4 documentary Britain’s Racist Election.

This documentary, first broadcast on March 15^th 2015, looks at the Conservative election victory in Smethwick in 1964, a victory that will ever be associated with slogan “If you want a nigger for a neighbour, vote Labour”.

Read the review here.