At Home with the Georgians

At Home with the Georgians
TV Show · Documentary · History

In this three-part show, author and historian Amanda Vickery explores the lives of the Georgian people in order to unlock the secrets of their homes. Vickery uses her knowledge of the Georgian era as well as diaries and letters written during that time to better understand the ways people lived and how that translated to the building and decorating of their homes, and vice versa. `At Home With the Georgians' thoroughly examines how the home contributed to the success or failure of a marriage, provided a creative outlet for women and why it was constantly faced with threats such as violence and theft.

2010 · 59m
Starring Amanda Vickery

Season 1

  • EPISODE 1
    A Man's Place
    Historian Amanda Vickery explores how the great British obsession with our homes began 300 years ago. Using the intimate diaries and letters of Georgian men and women, she explores how the desire for a home revolutionised relationships between men and women. She uncovers some surprising truths about how the home became crucial to the success of a marriage, and that setting up home was actually driven by men.
    1h
  • EPISODE 2
    A Woman's Touch
    The British obsession with beautifying our homes is not a new phenomenon -- it began with a vengeance in the Georgian era. Historian Amanda Vickery -- on a journey from stately home to pauper's attic -- reveals how `taste' became the buzzword of the age 300 years ago; and gave women a new outlet for their creativity, raising their status in the home as a consequence.
    1h 2 min
  • EPISODE 3
    Safe as Houses
    Historian Amana Vickery uses sources from intimate diaries to Old Bailey records to reveal how the 18th century home was constantly under threat from theft, fire, divorce, poverty, illness, old age and death. Georgian houses may seem like sanctuaries of calm elegance to us today, but at the time they were noisy chaotic places bursting with extended families, servants and lodgers.
    1h 2 min

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Cast & Crew

  • Amanda Vickery
    Host

About

At Home with the Georgians

Documentary

In this three-part show, author and historian Amanda Vickery explores the lives of the Georgian people in order to unlock the secrets of their homes. Vickery uses her knowledge of the Georgian era as well as diaries and letters written during that time to better understand the ways people lived and how that translated to the building and decorating of their homes, and vice versa. `At Home With the Georgians' thoroughly examines how the home contributed to the success or failure of a marriage, provided a creative outlet for women and why it was constantly faced with threats such as violence and theft.

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Studio
Acorn TV
Released
2010
Region of Origin
United Kingdom

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