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24 Hours in the Past is a BBC One living history TV series first broadcast in 2015. Six celebrities were immersed in a recreation of impoverished life in Victorian Britain. Each of the four episodes represented 24 hours living and working in four different occupations. [1] A key part of the series was its immersive nature.
The 19th century saw rapid technological development with a wide range of new inventions. This led Great Britain to become the foremost industrial and trading nation of the time. [70] Historians have characterised the mid-Victorian era (1850–1870) as Britain's 'Golden Years', [71] [72] with national income per person
Society and culture of the Victorian era refers to society and culture in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era--that is the 1837-1901 reign of Queen Victoria.. The idea of "reform" was a motivating force, as seen in the political activity of religious groups and the newly formed labour unions.
Victorians standardised the rules for association football, or soccer, based on a range of games already played, such as the Eton wall game.; Walter Clopton Wingfield invented the game of lawn tennis, which allowed young men and women to socialise together, and to get more exercise than by playing the sedate game of croquet.
The Victorian Flower Garden, 1991. The Wartime Kitchen and Garden, 1993. Harry's Big Adventure, 1994. The Sweet Makers at Blists Hill Victorian Town, Shrophire, 3 episodes and a Christmas special (2017). [13] Victorian Slum House in the East End of London, 5 episodes (2016) - London slum life during Victorian era.
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The 1900 House is a historical reenactment reality television series made by Wall to Wall/Channel 4 in 1999. The programme features a modern family attempting to live in the way of the late Victorians for three months in a modified house. It was first broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom and PBS in America (with American commentary).
How We Used to Live was a long-running British educational history television series, produced for most of its run by Yorkshire Television.The series, encompassing drama and documentary, remained in sporadic production from 1968 to 2002, airing on ITV and Channel 4.