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Tidying Up

Sarah Gristwood is worried that the vogue for tidying will make history harder to uncover.

Sarah Gristwood is worried that the vogue for tidying will make history harder to uncover.

Sarah is an historian herself, and in writing her books has relied heavily on documents which might easily have been discarded. But that's not all: she wonders, too, how her successors will access our digital clutter in 500 years' time.

Producer: Giles Edwards

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20 minutes

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Sat 11 Jan 2020 05:45

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  • Wed 8 Jan 2020 09:30
  • Wed 8 Jan 2020 20:45
  • Sat 11 Jan 2020 05:45

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