Adam Hart-Davis investigates the Victorian innovations that left a lasting impression on British society. In this progr...
James Dunn Barr tells how he was sentenced to 9 months in prison in 1889 for housebreaking. Two historians guide us through what life would h...
13 year old James Fleming from Perth explains the background that lead him to be sent to an Industrial school.
Jane Angus, aged just 12, tells us how she was caught stealing a basket from a passenger at Greenock railway station. Jane was sentenced to 10 day...
John has been accused of forging letters from his employer to allow him to get clothes on credit from local shops, but John insists that he couldn...
Documentary lifting the veil on the taboo that is corporal punishment, revealing a history spanning...
Documentary tracing the story of the ultimate sanction, examining such matters as the protocols of t...
David Olusoga traces the house's fortunes from the late 18th to the mid-19th century, discovering tales of scandal, domestic violence and the asy...
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