Ian Hislop salutes the unsung heroes of Victorian Britain who improved cities, housing and worki...
Jeremy Paxman begins his exploration into Victorian Britain by investigating the most dramatic event of the age - the explosion of grea...
Jeremy Paxman continues his exploration of the Victorian world by entering the Victorian home, a haven of order. But he soon discovers al...
Ian Hislop celebrates the dynamic and eccentric Victorian reformers who brought about the most remar...
In Somerset, the Bowlers indulge in a last supper of junk food before saying goodbye to the 20th Century and hello to life in the year 1900.
The perils of booze and sex are the focus for the final episode of Ian Hislop's series about Victori...
This edition visits the Circus, a perfect circle of palatial terraced houses in the centre of Regency Bath.
It is a week since the Bowlers began their time travel experience. But no-one has had a decent bath. The range cooker, whic...
Jeremy Paxman discovers how, during the dying years of Victoria's reign, artists led a revolt against Victorian values of money and...
Documentary drama series that reconstructs momentous events that shaped the building of Britain's cathedrals. Today, the story of York Minster Ca...
After four weeks of the drudgery of a Victorian level of housework, Joyce comes up with a 1900 solution: finding a servant to do the d...
A night out at a Music Hall is a great success but proves a rude introduction to the seedy world of Victorian London.
David Olusoga investigates divorce in Victorian Britain, through the case of a resident of 62 Falkner Street who tried to...
This episode looks at how railways began to move people, rather than just goods, around the country.
Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn find out how railways transformed the British diet.
Six celebrities work in four Victorian workplaces. The six celebrities spend their final 24 hours in the workhouse.
An ear of corn is at the heart of the second programme in the daily series. Ian Hislop charts an Act tha...
The 18th century was a time of great upheaval, with forces old and new poised to attack the established Prot...
The Rev Peter Owen-Jones explains how Victorian Britain marked a real turning point in religion, as a growing...
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...
A report on how the government ignored warnings for over 80 years that the thick fogs which once loomed over London would eventually cau...
David Olusoga pays his first visit to Ravensworth Terrace and investigates a vengeful lawyer, a scientist faced with financial ruin and a doc...
David Olusoga investigates the residents of an 18th-century house in Bristol, uncovering stories of piracy, an abandoned baby, a notorious po...
How the opportunities in employment and education created the middle classes and gave them such luxuries as their own toilets.
A group of 21st-century people move into a recreated Victorian slum. In this episode, the slum dwellers move into the 1860s, when London was t...
A group of 21st-century people move into a recreated Victorian slum. The slum dwellers live through a dire economic depression that blighted t...
A group of people move into a recreated Victorian slum. The slum dwellers have moved into the turbulent 1880s: unemployment was sky high, livi...
A group of people move into a recreated Victorian slum. The slum dwellers have moved into the 1890s, when Britain was slowly recovering from a...
A group of people move into a recreated Victorian slum. In the final episode the slum dwellers have moved into the 20th century and social cha...
A thousand years of the gossip, scandals, successes, disasters, eccentricities and cupidities that lie behind the facades of a great city.
Ian Hislop presents an entertaining and provocative look at Victorian attitudes to the poor, exploring the views o...
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