The Victorian Slum
2016
📺 1 Season
🎬 5 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 60 min/episode
Reality
In the heart of the modern East End of London, a Victorian slum has been recreated and a group of 21st-century people are moving in. Michael Mosley joins them to tell the extraordinary story of how the Victorian East End changed our attitude to poverty forever.
Seasons
Season 1
Follow participants as they move into an 1860s tenement made up of sparse rooms, a shared water pump and outhouses. They seek to make a living by matchbox making, wood turning and the rag trade, work once done by their impoverished forebears.
Related
Network
BBC Two
Keywords
victorian englandhistoricalimmersionlife in the slumsslum dwellers