Word of Mouth
Word of Mouth
BBC Radio 4
Metaphors for the Past: From Dinosaurs to Victorian Values
27 minutes Posted Apr 19, 2016 at 3:00 pm.
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Michael Rosen and Dr. Laura Wright talk to Dr Ross Wilson about how we talk about historical eras in order to define the way we live now, and how we've progressed. Ross Wilson is a historian at the University of Chichester who's written a book called The Language of the Past delving into the origins of terms about periods in history - Stone Age, mediaeval, Victorian Values - when we came up with them and why we use them. How historically accurate are they and does it matter?

Producer Beth O'Dea.