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- StarsOwen TealeRuth GoodmanPeter GinnThe series follows historians and archaeologists as they recreate the everyday farm life from the age of the Stuarts; they wear the clothes, eat the food and use the tools, skills and technology of the 1620s.
- DirectorChris MitchellStarsDominic FrisbyMarc MeltonvilleRuth GoodmanA group of historians and archaeologists prepare a Tudor feast as it would have been over 400 years ago, including the use of period clothes, recipes from the era, food sourced from the land and the absence of modern conveniences.
- StarsStephen NoonanPeter GinnRuth GoodmanIn this unique project, historian Ruth Goodman as well as archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn immerse themselves in the life of the Victorian farmer as he would have lived on the Acton Scott Estate.
- StarsMichael MosleyA group of 15 volunteers aged between 10 and 59 are transported back to Victorian London as they spend three weeks living and working in a recreation of the notorious Old Nichol slum in Bethnal Green in London's East End.
- StarsAnnie GrayAlex LanglandsHarpreet BauraFour professional bakers leave their modern businesses behind to experience what their profession was like in the past as they bake their way through the Victorian era.
- StarsStephen NoonanNick BarberRuth GoodmanLife in a 19th-century pharmacy is re-created in this four-part documentary. Historian Ruth Goodman, professor Nick Barber and doctorate student Tom Quick discover how people attempted to cure common ailments beginning at the time of Queen Victoria's reign in 1837, when remedies such as leeches, oil of earthworm and opium potions were commonly used.
- StarsRuth GoodmanPeter GinnStephen NoonanVictorian Farm Christmas looks into the lives of 19th century farmers and shows you how to make traditional gifts, food, games and decorations.
- StarsRobert LlewellynBen HighmoreGia MilinovichA family undergoes an experiment to experience life from 1970-1999 over a 30-day period, in order to explore how the technological advancements have changed life in Britain over the three decades.
- StarsHugh BonnevilleJuliet GardinerGregg WallaceThree families live for a week at a time in three adjoining houses on Albert Road, Morecambe over 5 episodes. First episode has them living as Edwardians with servants in 1900s. Second episode has them living in 1920s. Third episode has same families living as though during the 1939-45 World War. Fourth episode has a new coloured family instead, living through 1960s.
- StarsSue PerkinsGiles CorenGiles Coren and Sue Perkins have a go at 1970s style suburban self sufficiency. Giles and Sue largely fail at everything they do - but its all done with a big smile.
- StarsRuth GoodmanPeter GinnAlex LanglandsIn this 12-part documentary series of Edwardian Farm, archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn and historian Ruth Goodman go back in time to the early 1900s to live the lives of Edwardian farmers for a full calendar year.
- StarsLucy WorsleyAmanda VickeryPatricia Whittington-FarrellFinding secret doors add and rooms.
- StarsJohn SimmPeter GinnRuth GoodmanWartime Farm, is an eight-part British historical docuseries in which the running of a farm during the Second World War is reenacted. First broadcast on BBC Two on 6 September 2012.
- StarsGeraldine JamesRuth GoodmanPeter GinnHistorian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold turn the clock back 500 years to the early Tudor period to become tenant farmers on monastery land.
- StarsRuth GoodmanPeter GinnTom PinfoldHistorian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold learn about living in the medieval world and help rebuild a castle.
- StarsSara CoxSimon CharlesPolly RussellFifteen pupils and their teachers embark on an extraordinary time-travelling adventure as they fast-forward through more than 100 years of school life.
- StarsGiles CorenPolly RussellMary BerryBack In Time For Dinner, one British family embark on an extraordinary time traveling adventure to discover how a post war revolution in the food we eat has transformed the way we live. Starting in 1950 and guided by real records of what ordinary families ate for breakfast, lunch and dinner, they'll go from meager rations to ready meals and delivery pizza in just six weeks.
- StarsAnnabel CrabbSienna FerroneCarol FerroneGuided by Annabel Crabb, an Aussie family, the Ferrones, are on a time-travelling adventure to discover how we eat has transformed the way we live, the fabric of the nation and defined family roles over the past 60 years.
- StarsCarlo RotaTristan CampusAaron CampusGuided by Annabel Crabb, an Aussie family goes on a time-travelling adventure to discover how the food we eat has transformed the way we live, the fabric of the nation and defined family roles over the past 60 years.
- StarsGiles CorenPolly RussellJohn TorodeA family goes back to 1900 to experience life, food, social etiquette and dress styles through the coming decades.
- StarsCarlo RotaMelanie CarlsonDave CarlsonA 21st Century Canadian family, living in Northern Ontario, is going back in time. The parents and their three teenage daughters "start" the adventure in 1940, after their own house is "gutted" and retrofitted for each progressive decade. They progress by decade with each episode.
- StarsSara CoxPolly RussellDave ArdernThe Ardern family travel back through time in a Sheffield Cornershop. Exploring over 6 episodes, how what they sell and who they sell to, changes over time, starting with the Victorian era and ending in the 1990s.
- StarsAkash SharmaThe Sharma family put themselves in the historical hot seat. They relive 50 years of British Asian history, all told through the story of one vibrant, ever-changing city.
- StarsFi GloverTyger Drew-HoneyZöe LuckerIn this historical docuseries, six celebrities experience the relentless graft of Victorian Britain.
- StarsGiles CorenPolly RussellChristopher BigginsThe Robshaws return as they travel through six decades experiencing the festivities of the time from the 40s all the way up to the 90s.
- StarsGiles CorenPolly RussellDerrick EvansFor one summer, the Ashby Hawkins family give up their 21st-century technology and travel back in time to discover the radical transformation of our leisure time since 1950.
- StarsPhilip GlenisterPeter GinnRuth GoodmanHistorians Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn bring back to life the golden age of steam, exploring how Victorian railways helped to shape modern Britain.
- CreatorAdam ReeveStarsAmber ButchartNinya MikhailaHarriet WaterhouseFashion historian Amber Butchart fuses biography, art and the history of fashion as she explores the lives of historical figures by examining the clothes that they wore.
- StarsSara CoxPolly RussellCaitlin EllisThe Ellis family from Bradford are embarking on an extraordinary time-traveling adventure to discover how a transformation in the food eaten in the north of England can reveal how life has changed for northern working class families over the past 100 years.
- StarsMichael BuerkMichael Buerk travels around the UK to find out how so much of modern Britain was created by the Victorians, from impressive engineering projects to Summer holidays.
- StarsColin MaceCedric LodgeAndy LeechDocumentary series going behind the scenes at three of England and Wales historic preserved steam railways.
- DirectorPeter SweaseyStarsTom CosnelSean CunninghamAnnie GrayLucy Worlsey takes us back in time to see what it was like for the 12 days of Christmas in King Henry VIII day. From the food, presents, dress, dances, music, celebrations, customs and more. How some customs nowadays are based on that time. Using present day re-enactors, we get the real feel for the time period.
- StarsAlex JonesTamara BrabonEmma BrabonA group of modern women are going back in time to the 60s, 70s and 80s to work and live through three decades of British factory life and learn how an unsung army of female workers took on the fight for equality at work and at home. 50 years ago, Britain was a manufacturing powerhouse, with an astonishing 34% of the population working on a manufacturing production line. Factories mostly employed women - hundreds of thousands of them, who made clothes, telephones and televisions - an amazing array of household items that were sold all over the world. The factories were centred on areas of high unemployment like the south Wales valleys and by employing so many women and girls they were at the forefront of a change in British society. But the women who would drive that change were poorly paid, unfairly treated and denied basic rights. Now, a group of modern-day workers are going back to the shop floor to work in a classic British garment factory to travel through three decades of hard graft and social change to chart just how far women have come. From a mother and her daughters to a young feminist who is the first in her family to go to university, and from a pregnant mother of three to a teenager struggling to find work in the Welsh valleys - how will these 21st-century women adapt to a period of rampant sexism, huge gender pay gaps and tough working conditions?
- StarsAnita RaniKeith Brymer JonesPatch RodgersA group of twenty-first-century crafters move in to a late-1800s Victorian Arts and Crafts commune in the Welsh hills to renovate four of the key rooms in the house. Presented by Anita Rani.
- StarsSara CoxPolly RussellDave ArdernThe Ardern family travel back through time in a Sheffield Cornershop. Exploring over 6 episodes, how what they sell and who they sell to, changes over time, starting with the Victorian era and ending in the 1990s.
- StarsAnnabel Crabb