What the victorians did for us. Social progress.

Date:
2001
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Description

Adam Hart-Davis presents this documentary that examines the many improvements of day to day life introduced during the Victorian era. Among the subjects covered are universal elementary schooling that took children out of factories and mines, crowded housing conditions, the first water closet and public toilets, the building of the London sewers, corruption in the food market and the introduction of brand labels such as Sainbury's, visits to the dentists and early false teeth, Opium used as a painkiller as well as recreational drug, the first synthetic drug - Aspirin, labour-saving devices in the kitchen, the first disposable razor blade and a bicycle-powered shower, which, for some reason, never caught on.

Publication/Creation

United Kingdom : BBC 2, 2001.

Physical description

1 video cassette (VHS) (30 min.) : sound, color, PAL

Copyright note

BBC Television.

Notes

Broadcast 1 Oct 2001 at 20.30.
Supporting paperwork available in the department.

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