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Free Thinking: Emigration

In this episode of Free Thinking, Michaela Benson joins Laurence Scott to discuss emigration stories. The episode also features Eliza Showell’s great niece Black Country poet Liz Berry, Leanne McCormick and Elaine Farrell presenters of the Bad Bridget podcast which tells the stories of crime poverty and survival experienced by the thousands of 19th-century Irish …

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Departures – 400 Years of Emigration from Britain 9: Brits Abroad Today

Britain continues to be a major source of emigrants in the 21st century – not something we often hear about. So why do people leave the UK now and which countries do they choose to settle in? And how is emigration today affected by Britain’s colonial past? Mukti Jain Campion talks to sociologist Professor Michaela Benson of Lancaster …

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