To mark the second series of The Things We Forgot To Remember, we recorded a series of discussions relating to various historical issues. The subjects under discussion included the role of historians, families, the individual and communities in historical interpretation. You can listen to these via the podcast (what's a podcast?), or download them using the links below.

OU academic Chris Williams chatted with Clive Emsley, professor of history, Jovan Byford, a psychologist and Dan Weinbren, a social scientist, all from the Open University.

To download episodes: right-click on one of the links and click "Save target as" on the menu that appears. Then choose where you'd like the file to be saved on your computer. The file will then be downloaded.

Historical memories
Why do historians change their view of what's important? Who decides what's important anyway and what do they use as their sources? Find out about he modern view of historians in our podcast.

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Families in historyHow does our relationship with our ancestors change our view of history? Can we ever escape from our family and should we want to? Hear the modern bedbate on our ancestors in our podcast

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Individuals in history
Is there something about the way we think that changes the way we remember history? When it come to our memory of big events, do our minds play tricks on us? Listen to some individual viewpoints in our podcast.

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Communities in history
What are the ways that communities fix and transmit their views of the past? Do comunities remodel the past to suit its own interests? Hear the historical debate in our podcasts.

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