Episode 2
Dr Thomas presents this omnibus edition of his history about the changing meaning and experience of friendship over the centuries.
Dr Thomas presents this omnibus edition of his history about the changing meaning and experience of friendship over the centuries
He explores working class Friendly Societies - pre-Welfare State, grassroots insurance schemes - in the 18th and 19th centuries; children's friendships and the invention of the idea of the best friend; the idea of dogs being "man's best friend"; the Victorian borderland between platonic and homosexual love; and the tragic impact of the First World War on male friendships.
Producer: Beaty Rubens.
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Five Hundred Years of Friendship
Dr Thomas Dixon explores the changing meaning of friendship over the centuries.
