A House Through Time Explained

Genre:Documentary
Presenter:David Olusoga
Composer:Paul Honey
Country:United Kingdom
Language:English
Num Series:4
Num Episodes:16
Executive Producer:Maxine Watson
Producer:Mary Crisp
Location:Liverpool (series 1)
Newcastle upon Tyne (series 2)
Bristol (series 3)
Leeds (series 4)
Company:Twenty Twenty
Network:BBC Two

A House Through Time is a documentary television series made by Twenty Twenty Television for BBC Two. The first series aired in 2018, a second in 2019, a third in 2020, and a fourth in 2021, with each examining the history of a single residential building in an English city. An upcoming fifth series was announced in 2023.[1]

The programme is presented by David Olusoga, who studied history at the University of Liverpool in the early 1990s and is Professor of Public History at Manchester University.[2] The series consultant is design historian Professor Deborah Sugg Ryan, of the University of Portsmouth, who also appears in each episode.[3]

Episodes

Series 1 (2018)

The first series features the house at 62 Falkner Street in the Canning area of Liverpool.[4] [5] [6]

Series 2 (2019)

Series two featured 5 Ravensworth Terrace,[7] a Georgian-era terraced house in the Summerhill area of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and began broadcast on BBC Two on 8 April 2019.[8] [9] [10] [11] [12] As a result of research conducted for the programme, a plaque was unveiled there, commemorating a former resident (1841–1857), the naturalist Joshua Alder, on 26 September 2018 by Olusoga and the Lord Mayor of Newcastle, David Down.[13] The house has been Grade II listed since June 1976.

Series 3 (2020)

The third series takes place in Bristol, investigating the history of 10 Guinea Street,[14] whose inhabitants included the satirist John Shebbeare and the future mayor of Bristol Sir John Kerle Haberfield. The house has been Grade II* listed since December 1994.

Series 4 (2021)

The fourth series takes place at 5 Grosvenor Mount, in the Headingley area of Leeds.[15] With the other two houses in its terrace, it has been Grade II listed since August 1976.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: A House Through Time series 5 comes to BBC Two with a difference . Tellymix.co.uk . 16 November 2023.
  2. Web site: David Olusoga OBE becomes Professor at The University of Manchester . David Olusoga OBE becomes Professor at The University of Manchester . 27 March 2019.
  3. Web site: Deborah Sugg Ryan – Portsmouth Research Portal . researchportal.port.ac.uk . 10 April 2018.
  4. News: Slave trader's home, slum, des res: the stories of one house raise restless ghosts. David. Olusoga. The Observer . 31 December 2017. 4 January 2018. www.theguardian.com.
  5. Web site: The Liverpool house which will be the star of a new TV series. Paddy. Shennan. 10 December 2017. 4 January 2018.
  6. Web site: A House Through Time. www.twentytwenty.tv. 10 April 2018.
  7. 5 Ravensworth Terrace coordinates:
  8. Episode 1 — Series 2 . A House Through Time . . 8 April 2019 . 2 . 1 .
  9. Web site: A city with 'big ideas' – why House Through Time chose Newcastle. Meechan. Simon. 26 September 2018. nechronicle. 20 March 2019.
  10. Web site: A House Through Time – Newcastle. Geography. Kay's. 20 March 2019. Newcastle residential areas. en. 20 March 2019.
  11. Web site: See inside the Newcastle home which stars in A House Through Time. Hodgson. Barbara. 27 February 2019. nechronicle. 20 March 2019.
  12. Web site: When is the new series of A House Through Time? . Who Do You Think You Are Magazine . 20 March 2019.
  13. Web site: Lord Mayor joined by BBC presenter for plaque unveiling. Newcastle City Council. 20 March 2019. 10 April 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200410175418/https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/news/lord-mayor-joined-bbc-presenter-plaque-unveiling. dead.
  14. Web site: Murray . Robin . A House Through Time to air on BBC2 tonight — everything you need to know . Bristol Post. 26 May 2020 . 26 May 2020.
  15. Web site: A House Through Time in Leeds: Meet the owners of the intriguing Headingley property featured in the new series. Newton. Grace. 6 September 2021. Yorkshire Post.

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