Dr Thomas Dixon brings his major new series on the changing face of friendship to a close with a look at how the old and the young are navigating their friendships today through technologies old and new, and at how friendship might look in the future.
Episode 15: The Lonely Cyborg
A group of...
Published 04/11/14
Dr Thomas Dixon brings his major history of friendship up to the 1970s, when gender politics began to change friendships once again, and considers how popular culture both reflected and influenced this change.
Episode 14: Families of Choice.
Professor Barbara Taylor shares with Thomas Dixon...
Published 04/10/14
Dr Thomas Dixon continues to trace the changing meaning of friendship over the last five hundred years.
Episode 13: In Need, In Deed, By Post
Mass Observation and the archive of the Co-Operative Correspondence Club provide intimate evidence for friendship during the Second World War.
Dr...
Published 04/09/14