Landmarks: Victorian Britain
Victorian Britain is a unit of the BBC Schools TV series Landmarks from the 1990s & 2000s, covering history for primary school pupils.
Documentaries with acted dramatised sections about aspects of life in Victorian times. A narrator describes conditions, characters from the time describe their lives, and we see modern children investigating the past.
Two of the episodes are slightly modified repeats of programmes originally shown on Now and Then in 1988 and also repeated as part of Landmarks' earlier unit on Victorian Children from 1990. They were given some new, additional narration and captions to bring them in line with the three new programmes made for this Victorian Britain unit.
Country Life was originally titled The Country Child, broadcast 14th March 1988, and School Life was originally titled Going to School, broadcast 21st March 1988.
Home Life with Claire Goose as a housemaid
Also Home Life
Episode List
| # | Title | Broadcast |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Country Life | 18 Sep 1995 |
| 2. | Town Life | 25 Sep 1995 |
| 3. | Home Life | 2 Oct 1995 |
| 4. | School Life | 9 Oct 1995 |
| 5. | Achievements | 16 Oct 1995 |
Broadcasts
| Year | Term | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Channel | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995-96 | Autumn 1995 | Monday, 1:20pm | Thursday, 11:35am | BBC2 | from 18 Sep | |||
| 1997-98 | Autumn 1997 | Monday, 11:40am | Friday, 11:10am | BBC2 | from 22 Sep | |||
| 2000-01 | Autumn 2000 | weekdays, 9:40am | BBC2 | 11-15 Sep, not Scotland | ||||
| 2001-02 | Autumn 2001 | Thursday, 11:50am | BBC2 | from 8 Nov | ||||
CBBC Channel
Also broadcast on the CBBC Channel 'Class TV' service of schools programmes (this list may be incomplete):
- 2001-02: Summer 2002 (from Monday 20 May 2002, 10:20am)
- 2002-03: Autumn 2002 (Friday 11 October 2002 at 10:20am), Spring (from Monday 20 January 2003, 10:00am) & Summer 2003 (from Monday 23 June 2003, 9:50am)
Credits
| Directors | Allan Johnston Thea Cole |
| Producers | Allan Johnston Alistair Hughes Nicholas Whines (re-used episodes from 1988) |
Resources
Teacher's Notes
Video Plus Pack
Fact Finder Book
Resource Pack
Software
'Time-child' software previously available for the 1991 Victorian Children unit, later re-released on CD-ROM.
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