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An immersive history series in which Ruth Goodman and Rob Rinder explore Britain's defining historical events through the contrasting experiences of the rich and the poor. Blending expert insight, authentic locations and compelling real-life stories, the series reveals how wealth, class and resilience shaped everyday life across Britain's most dramatic moments in history.
Historical observational documentary series following a team who live the life of Victorian farmers for a year.
Viking Apocalypse is a examines the Ridgeway Hill Viking burial pit in Weymouth, UK, a site of a suspected mass execution long ago.[1] As they begin digging, archaeologists discover many male Viking skulls and search for clues that may reveal why Weymouth would have been a site for these beheadings.[2]
Historian 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.
A family of six and their home are stripped of all their modern technology to live a life of decades past. In each episode, the family lives through a given decade at a rate of a year per day. They have their own Technical Support Team to source and supply them with the vintage technology that would have been available to British households during the decade.
Edwardian Farm is an historical documentary TV series in twelve parts, first shown on BBC Two from November 2010 to January 2011. It depicts a group of historians trying to run a farm like it was done during the Edwardian era. It was made for the BBC by independent production company Lion Television and filmed at Morwellham Quay, an historic quay in Devon. The farming team was historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn. The series was devised and produced by David Upshal and directed by Stuart Elliott. The series is a development from two previous series Victorian Farm and Victorian Pharmacy which were among BBC Two's biggest hits of 2009 and 2010, garnering audiences of up to 3.8 million per episode. The series was followed by Wartime Farm in September 2012, featuring the same team but this time in Hampshire on Manor Farm, living a full calendar year as wartime farmers. An associated book by Goodman, Langlands, and Ginn, also titled Edwardian Farm, was published in 2010 by BBC Books. The series was also published on DVD, available in various regional formats.
How do you build a medieval castle from scratch? Domestic historian Ruth Goodman and archeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold make perhaps their most ambitious foray into the past as they head to France to take part in a build that has been underway since 1997. Our intrepid history adventurers join this magnificent construction at Guédelon Castle to recreate authentic medieval castle living from within its rising walls.
Most of us walk to get from A to B. But some are obsessed with getting to B quicker than everyone else. Jonathon Collins is such a walker. He's never lost a 'Walk Off' in his life. This is a statistic that he's a bit too keen to share with the world. But his love affair with walking is put in jeopardy with the arrival of a new fleet-footed nemesis. And there's also the cute Charity worker who always catches his eye. If only he could slow down long enough to chat to her.
Chris van Tulleken takes a personal view at why ultra-processed foods are so irresistible and how they have come to dominate food culture.
With the help of Victorian steam enthusiasts across the country, historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Alex Langlands journey back in time to the era of steam which shaped modern Britain.