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Roundtable on family novels with Julie Orringer and Colm Tóibín

Conversation with Andrew Solomon at the New York Public Library

Oxford Literary Festival. Panel Discussion with Diarmaid MacCulloch and Ruth Rendell

Colin McEnroe Show on WNPR with Post Secret's Frank Warren

Edmondson Lectures at Baylor

26 and 27 February 2013. http://www.baylor.edu/history/index.php?id=35969

Family Secrets in We Love This Book #7

Lead article in We Love This Book's cover feature, "Happy Families?"

http://content.yudu.com/A212vc/WLTB7/resources/18.htm

Night Waves with Philip Dodd, BBC Radio 3

Night Waves, 30 January 2013:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pzsw9

Marriage Guidance -- Kissing and Telling in History Today

Deborah Cohen opens the archives of the Scottish Marriage Guidance Council, founded in 1946, and finds that couples in the postwar years were more than happy to air their dirty linen.

http://www.historytoday.com/deborah-cohen/marriage-guidance-kissing-and-...

Secret Histories -- Slide-Show in the Guardian

Family history: the shifting secrets of our genealogies – in pictures

Each family history is woven with hidden threads, unspoken secrets which run through genealogies from generation to generation. The historian Deborah Cohen has been delving into unseen archives to examine how attitudes to privacy have changed over the last 200 years, to explore what families have tried to hide and why. Here she charts the shifting continents of shame with portraits of lives shaped by untold stories.