Historian David Olusoga charts 180 years of British history as lived by the successive inhabitants of a single home - a terraced house in Liverpool, from its construction in the 1840's to the present day...David discovers how the house came to be built as a merchant's residence by a canny property developer at a time when Liverpool was one of the world's great trading ports...David Olusoga follows the residents of the house from the 1850's to 1890's, a period of rapid change. He uncovers the story of why the house changed from a single dwelling to a boarding house, a Jewish immigrant and a sad family drama...The show concludes by charting the history of the house from 1945 to the present day. A period of post-war austerity, decline, creativity and regeneration...
Actors:
David Olusoga, Deborah Sugg Ryan, Gaynor Evans, Wilfred Steele
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