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David Olusoga investigates the devastating impact of the Blitz on Liverpool.
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62 Falkner Street | A House Through Time
David Olusoga goes through the history of the 180 years and 132 residents of 62 Falkner Street in Liverpool.
British emigration to America | A House Through Time
In the late 1880's, thousands of people were passing through Liverpool and emigrating to America. David Olusoga investig...
British railway | A House Through Time
A 19th century resident of 62 Falkner Street earns his living from the steam train industry.
Cholera | A House Through Time
David Olusoga investigates the 1850's Cholera epidemic in Liverpool.
Divorce in Victorian Britain | A House Through Time
David Olusoga investigates divorce in Victorian Britain, through the case of a resident of 62 Falkner Street who tried to...
Liverpool and the American Civil War | A House Through Time
David Olusoga investigates Liverpool's connection with the American Civil War, through the story of a resident of...
Liverpool cotton trade | A House Through Time
David Olusoga investigates the role Liverpool played in the cotton trade.
Liverpool in the sixties | A House Through Time
David Olusoga explores the boom in art, music and culture in Liverpool during the swinging sixties.
Liverpool slums | A House Through Time
David Olusoga investigates the conditions that many families in Liverpool were living in during the sixties.
S1E2 | A House Through Time
The story of those who lived in one house, from the time it was built until now. David Olusoga follows the residents of the house in Liverpool fr...
S1E3 | A House Through Time
The story of those who lived in one house, from the time it was built until now. David Olusoga follows the story from 1891 to 1945, through two W...
S1E4 | A House Through Time
The story of those who lived in one house, from the time it was built until now. David Olusoga traces the history of the house in Liverpool from ...
Series 1 | A House Through Time
The story of those who lived in one house, from the time it was built until now. David Olusoga follows the stories of the first inhabitants o...
The AIDs epidemic in Liverpool | A House Through Time
In the 80's and 90's Liverpool's gay community was in the grips of the AIDs epidemic.
The Liverpool docks | A House Through Time
David Olusoga investigates a resident of 62 Falkner Street who worked at the Liverpool docks.
The Toxteth Riots | A House Through Time
In July 1981 riots broke out in Liverpool, following longstanding tensions between police and the black community. David Olusoga inv...
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The Allies are in retreat, but the Navy can only pick up a few soldiers and Churchill is advised to make peace to save the rest.
01: The Evacuees | Landmarks
Former evacuees reminisce and pupils of St Marks School reinact evacuation day and visit a war memorial, including an explanation of the war's h...
02: 1910s | Further Back in Time for Dinner
The Robshaw family travel back to the 1910s - a decade of feast and famine. Rochelle struggles to feed the family as supplies run...
02: The Blitz | Landmarks
In April 1940, the phoney war ended and the real war began. What did the Battle of Britain and the Blitz mean to people at home? St Mark's schoolch...
03: 1920s | Further Back in Time for Dinner
The Robshaws experience a thoroughly modern decade as they enter the 20s. They get a taste of the age's racy reputation as they h...
04: 1930s | Further Back in Time for Dinner
The Robshaw family discover a surprising decade of progress and optimism as they journey through the 30s. Their larder is now stu...
05: 1940s | Further Back in Time for Dinner
In their final decade of time travel, the Robshaws enter the 1940s and experience a decade overshadowed by war and entirely fuell...
06: Episode 6 | Further Back in Time for Dinner
In the final episode, the family and Debbie reflect on their time travels, discovering that much of what they experienced in ...
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EastEnders star Shane Richie travels around his home city of London to explore the history of the Blitz there.
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The kids get a whole new wardrobe and haircut to match the 1940s period.
2: Evacuation | Dunkirk (2004)
To evacuate the thousands at Dunkirk, the Admiralty requisitions small boats, while the Navy races to lift as many as it can.
2: Liverpool | Blitz Cities
Liverpool actor Ricky Tomlinson, who was born in 1939, looks at the effect the Blitz had on his home city.
2: Road to War | Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain
The country basks in a hot Edwardian summer, but the assassination of an archduke in Sarajevo presages world war.
3: Norwich | Blitz Cities
Myleene Klass goes back to her home county of Norfolk to look into the story of the Baedeker Blitz on Norwich.
4: Cardiff | Blitz Cities
John Humphrys returns to south Wales to discover more about the effect of the Blitz on Cardiff and Swansea.
5: Birmingham | Blitz Cities
Hollywood actor David Harewood travels back to his native Birmingham to look at his city's Blitz story.
5: Little Britain | Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain
The Wall Street Crash and the rise of fascist politics in Europe caused chaos in 1930s Britain.
Temperance movement | A House Through Time
10 Guinea Street resident Owen Pow sets up a milk tavern business in response to the Temperance Movement.
4: Union and Disunion | Union with David Olusoga
The 20th century sees partition in Ireland. A sense of national unity emerges in the aftermath of the Second World War, but ...
Ring Vaccination and the Eradication of Smallpox | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
In the late 1960s, William Foege was running out of smallpox vaccine in Niger...
The Unwanted: The Secret Windrush Files
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6: First Contact | Civilisations
David Olusoga shows how art was always on the frontline when distant cultures met.
Kitchener and British Empire Historiography | A Timewatch Guide
David Olusoga explains how perceptions of empire have shifted throughout different generations.
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