S01E07: Victorian water | Horrible Histories

S01E07: The Great Stink | Horrible Histories

Parliamentarians try to find a solution to--or at least, a way to ignore--the Great Stink of 1858.

S01E06: Victorian Claims Direct | Horrible Histories

Be an exploited child labourer & get absolutely no compensation from Victorian Claims Direct.

British railway | A House Through Time

A 19th century resident of 62 Falkner Street earns his living from the steam train industry.

Liverpool cotton trade | A House Through Time

David Olusoga investigates the role Liverpool played in the cotton trade.

S01E10: Great Victorian Inventions: The Car | Horrible Histories

Animation.

The Children Who Built Victorian Britain

Using animation and actual recorded testimony, historian Jane Humphries tells the story of the child workers whose exploitation was ...

S02E03: The Worst Industrial Jobs in History | The Worst Jobs In History

Among the Worst Industrial Jobs in History are: Bridge builders, Canal leggers, bone cleaner to make...

Children in the Industrial Revolution | The Children Who Built Victorian Britain

How children were treated and how this began to change.

Why the Industrial Revolution Happened Here

Professor Jeremy Black explains the unique economic, social and political factors that helped Britain transform itself almost ent...

Britain 1750-1900: 03: Health and Housing | History File

Compilation of secondary schools programme on British History 1750-1900. Looks at how industrialisation changed the ...

07: Age of Industry | Andrew Marr's History of the World

In this episode, Andrew Marr tells how Britain's Industrial Revolution created the modern world.

Britain 1750-1900: 01: Migration and Emigration | History File

Compilation of secondary schools programme on British History 1750-1900. Looks at how industrialisation change...

04: Mine (Black Country) | How Britain Worked

Guy Martin's project is the first piston engine ever built - The Newcomen Beam Engine - which the team set out to return to ful...

Cotton mill | Pubs, Ponds and Power: The Story of the Village

The creation of one of the first cotton mills in Cromford.

Industry and factories | Learning Zone

Today we take factories for granted but in the 1700s they represented a completely new way of working. Until this time most work was d...

02: Brunel | Great Britons (2002)

In a series of programs about the chief candidates for greatness, Jeremy Clarkson argues the case for Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the great 19...

Britain 1750-1900: 02: Crime and Punishment | History File

Compilation of secondary schools programme on British History 1750-1900. Looks at how industrialisation changed th...

S01E01: Victorian | Turn Back Time

A group of modern shopkeepers and their families live and trade through six key eras of history. They begin their journey in the 1870s, wh...

05: Henry VIII to the Industrial Revolution | Michael Wood's Story of England

A portrait of one village through the whole of English history sees 17th-century dissenters, an...

Britain 1750-1900: 04: Work and Wages | History File

Compilation of secondary schools programme on British History 1750-1900. Looks at how industrialisation changed the day-...