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Helen Castor and the team explore recent historical research and follow up listener's questions and comments.
Today: a listener's research into his grandfather's involvement in the Boer War reveals an incident which he had referred to as 'genocide' and caused him much distress throughout his life. Helen castor talks to Professor Franjohan Pretorious and Professor Denis Judd to find out whether such a term can be used.

Tom Holland visits Larkhill on Salisbury Plain to see the site of a former airfield and aviation test centre which was home to Britain's early military flyers.

How did our ancestors react to natural disasters? Helen castor talks to professor Frank Furedi at the University of Kent and professor John Dickie at University College London.

In Cumbria, Caz Graham meets up with drainage historians Ted and Stella Davies to find out more about the Johnby Tilery near Penrith and speaks to historian Tony Philips at the University of Keele about the impact of agricultural drainage in the nineteenth century.

Producer: Nick Patrick
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