Who do you think you are?: Family history and memory on British television

Televising History: Mediating the Past in Postwar Europe

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 234-247

  Holdsworth, Amy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230277205_17     Document Type: Chapter

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