• 2019
  • 1h
Phil Spencer's History of Britain in 100 Homes

Summary Through this 8 part series Phil chooses 100 homes that typically represent the period that they were built in. These homes vary in size, materials used, style and location across Britain. There is an 8 th part not listed in the episode list, which is the "Contemporary" edition, which takes us up to date from the 1970s. View more details

  • 2019
  • 1h

Phil Spencer's History of Britain in 100 Homes

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Stars : Phil Spencer

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jan 29, 2019

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : Official Site

Language : English

Filming locations : UK

Production companies : Raise the Roof Productions

Summary Through this 8 part series Phil chooses 100 homes that typically represent the period that they were built in. These homes vary in size, materials used, style and location across Britain. There is an 8 th part not listed in the episode list, which is the "Contemporary" edition, which takes us up to date from the 1970s. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jan 29, 2019

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : Official Site

Language : English

Filming locations : UK

Production companies : Raise the Roof Productions

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Phil Spencer in Phil Spencer's History of Britain in 100 Homes (2019)

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Episode 1 • Jan 29, 2019
From Cave Dwellers to Home Makers
The series starts here with a multi million £ new home in the UK where the open plan design is shown not to be a modern design. Then we go back in history to homes dating back 13,000 years to 11,000 BC to 1600 AD. We see how the one room homes evolve into homes with many rooms.
Episode 2 • Feb 05, 2019
Lavish Properties and Revolutionary Social Housing
Phil visits 14 houses from the year 1640 to 1800. We are shown various houses in workers' villages, from Shipwrights to Mill workers. Many are still lived in today. Plus Alms houses and homes for the poor.
Episode 3 • Feb 12, 2019
The Industrial Revolution
The homes that Phil visits in this episode include: Usk Lighthouse, Regency townhouses in Brighton, Apartments converted from an old workhouse, Canal working boats, a Weymouth Harbour house, Ann Hathaway's cottage, a Cottier's cottage in Ireland, Lincoln Black Mill and Glasgow 1850 tenements.
Episode 4 • Feb 19, 2019
Working Class Homes
We visit homes from 1850 to 1880, when a lot of change was taking place, including better sanitation. Some of the homes that were built quickly for the poor, are now sought after. In the Rhonda Valley in Wales, where coal mining drew in workers from all across the nation, many small homes were erected to house the influx.
Episode 5 • Feb 26, 2019
Edwardian and Dream Homes
We see several lovely homes from 1860 to 1920, from various areas around England.
Episode 6 • Mar 05, 2019
The Interwar Years
Phil visits the house in Sussex where the Bloomsbury set lived or stayed, and debated, wrote or painted. When men were away at war and women were not allowed to sign up, women worked in factories in around the year 1916, and homes were built for them to stay in at such places as Gretna. During the Great War, WW1, many stately houses were turned into convalescent homes for injured service men. Frognal House in Sidcup, Kent became one of the most vital military hospitals for injured soldiers, from 1917 this 8 reception room and 13 bedroom house became a life changing house for 18,000 men in the space of 12 years. Some say it was the birthplace of plastic surgery in Britain as they specialized in face and jaw surgery in WW1. We see what a Nissen-Petren house is in Yeovil, Somerset. Then a post-war semi as there are 3 million of them still standing in the UK. Phil explains that as the middle classes were moving to the suburbs, the rich were moving to the coast, and so we see a 6000 sq ft Art Deco home, called The Sandcastle in Eastbourne.
Episode 7 • Mar 12, 2019
From World War II to the 1960s
Phil shows us how PreFab houses of the war era that are still standing and some are beloved homes. We see the famous Ainsworth complex in London that is captured in so many TV series, especially crime dramas. He discovers houses that were homes to evacuated children in WW2, and we see a stately home that was divided up into apartments.
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