Women's struggle to clean and care for their families in a household moral mission. Amanda Vickery's hidden history of the home.

What do letters and diaries tell us about running the home in the 16th and 17th centuries? Why do pots and pans matter?

Exploring life at home in the past, historian Amanda reveals housewives were once expected to concoct cure-all medicines. Show more

Exploring life at home in the past, historian Amanda Vickery reveals sewing was a housewife's duty and also acted as valuable therapy.

Historian Amanda Vickery on the perils of running a house in Lancashire with unreliable servants. From Elizabeth Shackleton's diaries.

Historian Amanda Vickery reveals the hidden history of home over 400 years, beginning with the very heart of private life - the marital bed.

How the home protected people from dark forces outside. Historian Amanda Vickery on the hidden history of home over 400 years.

A place for prayer, music and safety. Historian Amanda Vickery reveals the hidden history of the home over 400 years.

Elaborate rituals of locking up at night, plus records of Old Bailey trials. Amanda Vickery's hidden history of the home over 400 years.

The home as a microcosm of social order. Historian Amanda Vickery reveals the hidden history of the home over 400 years.

Responding to Prof Amanda Vickery's new Radio 4 series about the history of private life, Tom Sutcliffe chairs a discussion programme about the meaning of home today. Show more

Historian Amanda Vickery follows the tale of a fashionable 18th-century couple who spent their life together doing up their magnificent houses. Show more

A room made of feathers? Historian Amanda Vickery reveals how eccentric homes reflected wider 18th-century ideas about science and nature. Show more

Historian Amanda Vickery reveals how the preparations of two 18th-century husbands for their new wives had very different outcomes. Show more

Historian Amanda Vickery explores the homes of people lower down the social scale, and how they responded to the idea of taste. Show more

Historian Amanda Vickery's tale of a scandalous celebrity divorce, where the husband was prime minster. What did the wife get? Show more

Historian Amanda Vickery investigates the complicated arrangements that limited a man's search for a suitable wife.

Historian Amanda Vickery reveals what 18th-century home life held for spinsters. As many as one in five women never married. Show more

Historian Amanda Vickery discovers how the richest widow in 18th-century England spent her late husband's coal fortune. Show more

From intimate diaries, historian Amanda Vickery discovers the stories of two very different widowers desperately searching for a new life. Show more