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Re: Historical TV documentries/programmes
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 11 November 15 23:11 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Jane Masri on Wednesday 11 November 15 17:04 GMT (UK)
Are there any recent or 'now playing' programmes with a historical flavour that I might watch on YouTube or one of the I-players?
I've exhausted, Antiques Roadshow, Heir Hunters, Family Finders etc.  Just got Downton Abbey once a week now.  Need MORE  ;D

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Hi Jane,
Now don't laugh but I saw a show the other night that was just lovely -- Great Canal Journeys with Timothy West & Prunella Scales.  Their journey on the Shannon-Erne waterway even had some family history in it!  Fabulous.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/great-canal-journeys/episode-guide

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« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 11 November 15 23:20 GMT (UK) »
At Home With The Georgians is available on You Tube

If you want to go further back in time, I enjoyed this http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06h7x5f
SCOTLAND: Wardlaw Steen/Stein Tweedie McBride McEwan Pate/Peat Brown Somerville Bishop Farier/Ferrier Wood  Torrance Gibb Ross Dunlop Downs Richardson Ramsey Story Snaddon/Sneddon Auld Allan McLean McInnes Mason Law Lawson Kerr Cockburn Christie Ballingall Wardrope Weir Wallace Scott.
IRELAND: Welsh Clifford Lee Allingham Keane Dale Robinson Greer McVey Bingham Skelton Carson Broomfield Clark McEwan/McKeown McCreary McLaughlan.
YORKSHIRE: Cudworth Smith Cope Coulton Hainsworth

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Re: Historical TV documentries/programmes
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 11 November 15 23:24 GMT (UK) »
PBS has a lot of documentaries [some historical] on YouTube.
Wiltshire:  Banks, Taylor
Somerset:  Duddridge, Richards, Barnard, Pillinger
Gloucestershire:  Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol:  Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down:  Ennis, McGee
Wicklow:  Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire:  Logan, Conning
Wisconsin:  Ennis, Chapman, Logan, Ware
Maine:  Ware, Mitchell, Tarr, Davis

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« Reply #12 on: Thursday 12 November 15 00:27 GMT (UK) »
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« Reply #13 on: Thursday 12 November 15 01:17 GMT (UK) »
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« Reply #14 on: Thursday 12 November 15 12:36 GMT (UK) »
Great Railway Journeys with Michael Portillo.
WDYTYA of course, as well as Long Lost Family and Heir Hunters.
Downton Abbey.
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LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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« Reply #15 on: Thursday 12 November 15 13:28 GMT (UK) »
I can recommend the 2-part documentary 'Inside Holloway' which has been on Channel 5 recently.  It had a lot of the history of the prison and I found it fascinating.

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« Reply #16 on: Thursday 12 November 15 16:47 GMT (UK) »
There've been loads of trails recently on the BBC for historical winter series including Dickensian things. Never a shortage.....
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« Reply #17 on: Thursday 12 November 15 17:01 GMT (UK) »
I think if you try channel 4 on demand you can watch Tony Robinson's "walking through history"
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