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306 results found for all records.
Seven Ages of Britain
Age of Empire
- Broadcast
- 2010 (59 mins)
The story of the British Empire from 1750 to 1900 revealed through its art and treasures. Dimbleby travels through Britain, America and India tracing the descent from adventure and inspiration into moral...
Seven Ages of Britain
Age of Ambition
- Broadcast
- 2010 (59 mins)
In the last episode of Seven Ages of Britain, David Dimbleby looks at how the 20th century saw ordinary Britons upturning ancient power structures and class hierarchies. The catalyst was the First World War,...
Timeshift
Crime and Punishment: The Story of Corporal Punishment
- Broadcast
- 2010 (59 mins)
Timeshift lifts the veil on the taboo that is Corporal Punishment. What it reveals is a fascinating history spanning religion, the justice system, sex and education. Today it’s a subject that is almost...
Timeshift
Crime and Punishment: Capital Punishment
- Broadcast
- 2010 (59 mins)
Timeshift digs into the archive to trace the extraordinary story of the ultimate sanction. At the beginning of the nineteenth century you could still be hanged in Britain for offences such as stealing a...
Saving Britain’s Past
The Pit
- Broadcast
- 2009 (28 mins)
In the 1980s while most pits in Britain faced closure one pit opened up not as a mine but as a museum. This is the story of a pit that defines Britain’s painful leap from an industrial to a post-industrial...
Saving Britain’s Past
The Street
- Broadcast
- 2009 (29 mins)
7/7 of doc pres by Tom DYCKHOFF about the conservation movement in Britain since WWII. Often fractious, never dull, Brick Lane in London, encapsulates everything that 21st Century multicultural Britain...
Saving Britain’s Past
The Market
- Broadcast
- 2009 (26 mins)
4/7 of doc pres by Tom DYCKHOFF about the conservation movement in Britain since WWII. This edition explains the battle for Covent Garden Market and how its residents and workers took on the planners and won.
Saving Britain’s Past
The Crofters
- Broadcast
- 2009 (30 mins)
6/7 doc pres by Tom DYCKHOFF on the conservation movement in Britain. The struggle to end private land ownership has raised new problems for ppl of Assynt as they attempt to develop one of the most beautiful...
Saving Britain’s Past
The Country House
- Broadcast
- 2009 (29 mins)
3/7 of doc pres by Tom DYCKHOFF about the conservation movement in Britain since WWII. Exploring the decline of the country house and its fight for survival. Focuses on Eastnor Castle country house in...
Saving Britain’s Past
The Streets In The Sky
- Broadcast
- 2009 (29 mins)
2/7 doc pres by Tom DYCKHOFF on the conservation movement in Britain since WWII. Park Hill, Sheffield - a pioneering public housing project in the 1950s, fell into decline in the 1970s, listed in the 1990s,...