On a recent episode of Who Do You Think You Are?, Prof Rachel Cowgill said whistling had been all the rage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She said it was “very, very common to be walking down the street and to hear people whistling all around you” and for music halls to host professional whistlers. Whatever happened to this tradition? Edith Andrews, Glasgow
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