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28/09/2010

Vanessa Collingridge examines the worldwide impact of Methodism and travels to Manchester to find out more about a Jacobite uprising.

A listener in Hampshire wants to know more about the career of a Methodist Missionary the Reverend Draper. In investigating his life 'Making History' finds out more about the worldwide influence of the Methodist church.

We head for Suffolk to find out more about Medieval Deer Parks and discover that they were in existence in earlier Roman times.

In Manchester a listeners family history reveals a link to the man who led a Jacobite mob in an attack on a chapel in the city in 1715. Vanessa travels north to find out why Jacobite's were active in north west England.

You can send us questions or an outline of your own research.

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Producer: Nick Patrick
A Pier production for 大象传媒 Radio 4.

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