Synopsis
David Olusoga explores how restrictions placed on German's living in the UK during the first world war impacted the residents of 5 Ravensworth Terrace.
- Programme: A House Through Time
- Series: 2
- Episode: 3
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2019
- History | Britain: Migration, empires and the people: c790 to the present day | Migration to & from Britain c.790 to the present day | 1900-c.2010
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