The Essay: Home Sweet Home

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The Essay: Home Sweet Home: Episode 2

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Home Sweet Home

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Writer Madeleine Bunting reflects on some astonishing instances of homesickness.

Writer Madeleine Bunting continues her series with a look at some astonishing instances of homesickness, a condition which in past centuries was even thought to be fatal.

In her series reflecting on different dimensions of home, the writer and journalist Madeleine Bunting turns her attention to homesickness. In the American Civil War, soldiers were believed to have died of it. 17th-century Swiss mercenaries were prone to it, particularly when they heard the Swiss horn played; and generations of British children were expected to toughen it out in boarding schools, where learning to endure homesickness almost became part of a national strategy.

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Madeleine Bunting begins a new series examining the many dimensions of what we call home.

Writer Madeleine Bunting begins a new series examining the many dimensions of what we call home, from an Iron Age hut to the home button on our smartphones.

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