S01E12: Workout with Queen Victoria | Horrible Histories

S01E12: Workout with Queen Victoria | Horrible Histories

History | CBBC | 2009 | 1'35''

Queen Victoria pitches her workout regime.

S01E12: Victorian schoolchildren names | Horrible Histories

S01E12: Victorian schoolchildren names | Horrible Histories

History | CBBC | 2009 | 2'36''

Schoolchildren have some very unusual names.

S01E10: Victorians criminal street slang | Horrible Histories

S01E10: Victorians criminal street slang | Horrible Histories

History | CBBC | 2009 | 2'04''

An upper-class couple is conned by a thief using street slang.

S01E09: Victorian school punishments | Horrible Histories

S01E09: Victorian school punishments | Horrible Histories

History | CBBC | 2009 | 1'59''

An inspector gets a rundown from strict teachers on school punishments.

S02E02: Power to the People | The Battle for Britain’s Soul

S02E02: Power to the People | The Battle for Britain’s Soul

Christianity | BBC Two | 2005 | 59'04''

The Rev Peter Owen-Jones explains how Victorian Britain marked a real turning point in religion, as a growi...

S02E01: The Church in Danger | The Battle for Britain’s Soul

S02E01: The Church in Danger | The Battle for Britain’s Soul

Christianity | BBC Two | 2005 | 58'58''

The 18th century was a time of great upheaval, with forces old and new poised to attack the established Pr...

08: The Good Old Days | 1900s House

08: The Good Old Days | 1900s House

History | Channel 4 | 1999

A night out at a Music Hall is a great success but proves a rude introduction to the seedy world of Victorian London.

05: How to be a Victorian | 1900s House

05: How to be a Victorian | 1900s House

History | Channel 4 | 1999

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 ...

04: Cleanliness is Next to Godliness | 1900s House

04: Cleanliness is Next to Godliness | 1900s House

History | Channel 4 | 1999

It is a week since the Bowlers began their time travel experience. But no-one has had a decent bath. The range cooker, whi...

02: Time Travellers | 1900s House

02: Time Travellers | 1900s House

History | Channel 4 | 1999

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.

05: Fire at York | Cathedral

05: Fire at York | Cathedral

History | BBC Two | 2005 | 58'19''

Documentary drama series that reconstructs momentous events that shaped the building of Britain's cathedrals. Today, the story of York Minster C...

The Bristol Entertainment

The Bristol Entertainment

History | BBC Two | 1972 | 1'09'29''

A thousand years of the gossip, scandals, successes, disasters, eccentricities and cupidities that lie behind the facades of a great city.

Episode 4 | 24 Hours in the Past

Episode 4 | 24 Hours in the Past

History | BBC One | 2015 | 57'59''

Six celebrities work in four Victorian workplaces. The six celebrities spend their final 24 hours in the workhouse.

03: The Circus | Britain’s Best Buildings

03: The Circus | Britain’s Best Buildings

History | BBC Parliament | 2017 | 58'36''

This edition visits the Circus, a perfect circle of palatial terraced houses in the centre of Regency Bath.

04: Dreams and Nightmares | The Victorians

04: Dreams and Nightmares | The Victorians

History | BBC One | 2009 | 58'31''

Jeremy Paxman discovers how, during the dying years of Victoria's reign, artists led a revolt against Victorian values of money an...

02: Home Sweet Home | The Victorians

02: Home Sweet Home | The Victorians

History | BBC One | 2009 | 58'17''

Jeremy Paxman continues his exploration of the Victorian world by entering the Victorian home, a haven of order. But he soon discovers a...

01: Painting the Town | The Victorians

01: Painting the Town | The Victorians

History | BBC One | 2009 | 59'20''

Jeremy Paxman begins his exploration into Victorian Britain by investigating the most dramatic event of the age - the explosion of gre...

Episode 3 | Full Steam Ahead

Episode 3 | Full Steam Ahead

History | BBC Two | 2016 | 59'14''

Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn find out how railways transformed the British diet.

Episode 2 | Full Steam Ahead

Episode 2 | Full Steam Ahead

History | BBC Two | 2016 | 59'07''

This episode looks at how railways began to move people, rather than just goods, around the country.

S07E09: The Great Fog | Secret History

S07E09: The Great Fog | Secret History

History | Channel 4 | 1999 | 50'15''

A report on how the government ignored warnings for over 80 years that the thick fogs which once loomed over London would eventually c...

Power: the Repeal of the Corn Laws, 1846 | A Revolution in Five Acts

Power: the Repeal of the Corn Laws, 1846 | A Revolution in Five Acts

History | BBC Radio 4 | 2001 | 27'08''

An ear of corn is at the heart of the second programme in the daily series. Ian Hislop charts an Act tha...

S03E02 | A House Through Time

S03E02 | A House Through Time

Crime and punishment during the eighteenth and nineteenth century | BBC Two | 2020 | 58'55''

David Olusoga traces the house's fortunes from the late 18th to the mid-19th century, discovering tales of scandal, domestic violence and the a...

S03E01E1 | A House Through Time

S03E01E1 | A House Through Time

Geography | BBC Two | 2020 | 59'12''

David Olusoga investigates the residents of an 18th-century house in Bristol, uncovering stories of piracy, an abandoned baby, a notorious po...

S02E01 | A House Through Time

S02E01 | A House Through Time

Geography | BBC Two | 2019 | 58'29''

David Olusoga pays his first visit to Ravensworth Terrace and investigates a vengeful lawyer, a scientist faced with financial ruin and a docto...

01: Britain’s Moral Makeover | Ian Hislop’s Age of the Do-Gooders

01: Britain’s Moral Makeover | Ian Hislop’s Age of the Do-Gooders

History | BBC Two | 2010 | 59'24''

Ian Hislop salutes the unsung heroes of Victorian Britain who improved cities, housing and work...

02: Suffer the Little Children | Ian Hislop’s Age of the Do-Gooders

02: Suffer the Little Children | Ian Hislop’s Age of the Do-Gooders

History | BBC Two | 2010 | 59'18''

Ian Hislop celebrates the dynamic and eccentric Victorian reformers who brought about the most rema...

03: Sinful Sex and Demon Drink | Ian Hislop’s Age of the Do-Gooders

03: Sinful Sex and Demon Drink | Ian Hislop’s Age of the Do-Gooders

History | BBC Two | 2010 | 59'13''

The perils of booze and sex are the focus for the final episode of Ian Hislop's series about Victor...

05: Social Progress | What the Victorians Did For Us

05: Social Progress | What the Victorians Did For Us

History | BBC Two | 2001 | 28'39''

How the opportunities in employment and education created the middle classes and gave them such luxuries as their own to...

The 1900s | The Victorian Slum

The 1900s | The Victorian Slum

History | BBC Two | 2016 | 58'54''

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...

The 1890s | The Victorian Slum

The 1890s | The Victorian Slum

History | BBC Two | 2016 | 59'06''

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...

The 1880s | The Victorian Slum

The 1880s | The Victorian Slum

History | BBC Two | 2016 | 58'52''

A group of people move into a recreated Victorian slum. The slum dwellers have moved into the turbulent 1880s: unemployment was sky high, livi...

The 1870s | The Victorian Slum

The 1870s | The Victorian Slum

History | BBC Two | 2016 | 58'59''

A group of 21st-century people move into a recreated Victorian slum. The slum dwellers live through a dire economic depression that blighted t...

The 1860s | The Victorian Slum

The 1860s | The Victorian Slum

History | BBC Two | 2016 | 58'57''

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...

Workers or Shirkers? Ian Hislop’s Victorian Benefits

Workers or Shirkers? Ian Hislop’s Victorian Benefits

History | BBC Two | 2016 | 59'07''

Ian Hislop presents an entertaining and provocative look at Victorian attitudes to the poor, exploring the views o...

Divorce in Victorian Britain | A House Through Time

Divorce in Victorian Britain | A House Through Time

History | BBC Two | 2018 | 6'03''

David Olusoga investigates divorce in Victorian Britain, through the case of a resident of 62 Falkner Street who tried to...
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