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Soldiers in silhouette: visual shorthand for the First World War

Posted by Katherine on October 25, 2015 in 20th Century, Books, Digital, Television

Does this image look familiar to you? If you’re in the UK you have probably seen it, or images like it, hundreds of times before, particularly last year. And it’s likely that this simple silhouette instantly leads your mind to…

Questions answered on Tudor Monastery Farm

Posted by Katherine on December 23, 2013 in 16th Century, Television

I haven’t been watching much television recently, but one thing I have managed to keep up with is Tudor Monastery Farm. I was a big fan of the original Victorian Farm, but didn’t really get into the later series, Edwardian…

The triumph of morphine: Dr Michael Mosley on pain

Posted by Katherine on October 20, 2013 in 19th Century, 20th Century, Television

Dr Michael Mosley is a wonderful programme maker who is responsible for several other great documentaries I’ve mentioned before, including Medical Mavericks, The Story of Science, Frontline Medicine and several episodes of Horizon. Now he’s presenting a new three-part series called…

Top Documentaries on YouTube #4

Posted by Katherine on October 18, 2013 in 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Television

In the last couple of weeks I have been craving modern history documentaries, particularly those concerned with British and American politics. The next few documentary posts contain a few good ones I’ve discovered during my browsing. Blair: The Inside Story…

Top Documentaries on YouTube #3

Posted by Katherine on September 20, 2013 in 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Television

Andrew Marr’s The Making of Modern Britain This documentary was first broadcast in 2009 and cover the period in British history from the death of Queen Victoria to the end of the Second World War. it was made as a…

Top documentaries on YouTube #2

Posted by Katherine on September 6, 2013 in 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Medieval, Television

Blackadder Rides Again This is a fantastic run through of the history of the sitcom Blackadder, broadcast at Christmas 2008 to celebrate its 25th anniversary. For those who don’t know the programme, it covers in four series the medieval period,…

Beau Brummell – London’s first dandy

Posted by Katherine on June 7, 2013 in 18th Century, 19th Century, Television

On this day in 1778, George Bryan Brummell (known as Beau Brummell) was born in Downing Street London. His father was private secretary to the prime minister, Lord North, and his family was very upwardly mobile, living at The Grove, in Donnington,…

Archaeology: A Secret History

Posted by Katherine on May 17, 2013 in 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Medieval, Television

There have been some great documentaries on TV recently, including the wonderful Archaeology: A Secret History, which at first sight I thought might be more along the lines of Time Team, but turned out to be really innovative and fascinating….

Top documentaries on YouTube #1

Posted by Katherine on May 7, 2013 in 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Medieval, Television

The Supersizers… This is one of my favourite documentary series of all time and I have been quite happy to watch episodes over and over again! Each episode sees restaurant critic Giles Coren and comedian Sue Perkins spend a week…

Jean Guichard’s La Jument

Posted by Katherine on December 27, 2011 in 20th Century, Television

An episode of Coast just alerted me to the existence of these amazing photographs by Jean Guichard, a French photographer who specialises in lighthouses. In 1989 he took a series of seven photographs of a lighthouse called La Jument off…

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