A House Through Time

[pastafreak]

It's back! Tonight at 9 on BBC 2. One of my favourite programs...only discovered by accident that it's back.

https://www.freeview.co.uk/tv-guide

[barry1010]

We enjoy it, too.

[Mamyalynne]

Yes, looking forward to it.

[Lie-in King]

Ta pasta, it's always an enjoyable watch :-)

[AuntPG]

One of my favourites too -and I to only found out by accident this morning watching TV at Breakfast. I love this programme, so interesting to see how the house/home develops over the years.

[Peter Pedant]

are they repeats or the real thing?
I thought his Bristol house was too slave-oriented. - that is more to bristol than 200 y slavery

History is of course re-written every generation ( some French thinker)

[Mamyalynne]

Not a repeat.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/sep/07/tv-tonight-david-olusoga-is-back-with-another-historic-house

[Peter Pedant]

Yeah bear in mind that if History is being rewritten every generation then there must be different ( but equally valid ) interpretations

I have seen professional archeologists at work - -" I have found X and so it must be Y ' - and wondered.....
and shock of the week is here:
https://brentnongbri.com/2021/03/30/the-retraction-of-dirk-obbinks-sappho-chapter-and-the-question-of-authenticity/

for slow or reluctant readers - the article is about sitting in a room and discussing a papyrus written 2000 y ago - grammar and writing and of course - what does it mean?

and finding out it was written by the presenter - - the previous week.

At least with the Bolton Goddess
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-49043368
the British Museum expert identified the wrong hieroglyphic. Hilariously done as a drama, Antiques Fraud Show

[jno]

this is the first time he hasn't used a house in a port town (earlier ones were Liverpool, Newcastle and Bristol) so I suppose less chance of encountering slavery.

[gingejbee]

"discovered by accident"?
Doesn't anyone get a listings magazine anymore?
Also, another highly recommended series starts on Friday @9.30pm on BBC2..."The North Water" with Colin Farrell and Jack O'Connell....nautical thriller set in 1859 in the Arctic.

[pastafreak]

Well, I don't and haven't for almost 2 years. I was browsing the freeview listings when I came across it...by accident.

[jno]

you do risk missing good things, pasta. Have a wee flip through the Radio Times next time you're in the supermarket.

[barry1010]

I’m looking forward to The North Water, too, also Endeavour, Help, and All Creatures Great and Small next week.

[Peter Pedant]

what did people think?
foo - historians dont add, and their knowledge of Law can be said to be bad.

The first occupants were childless - which allowed Brice to concentrate on his law activities. No mention of lack of appeal court ( 1926 I think) so the only way was to intervene with the Home Secretary. Completely missed an elected politician was acting in a judicial capacity -
The pet lawyer said: if you give strychnine regularly then you intend to kill someone ( and I thought game over )

No 2 had buried her husband after a year ( he was 31 - cholera) and married a rich draper - who failed because he didnt change with the Times. 2 servants only which surprised me. That one ( who later went bankrupt) has got thro moolah like no body's business (£250 travel jesus in victorian times ) in the final year of trading. - a clear fraud on creditors, missed by Olusoga, no slavery. We had the married womens doo dah act - this comes up in the Forsyte Saga ( 1967 ) - and we had her will - since now she cd devise property. A bit crude for a quick reader - the testatrix has given away stuff before she revokes the previous wills.

Then we had the Nicholson family - would the 20 y old make it after his father's sudden death. Yup rich became very rich. Did Olly understand engineering ? the idea of victorian over-engineering was alien to him ( er certainly not enslaved by the idea) .

so overall - you pick your historian and listen

[Hopkirk]

The Bristol one was fascinating.
If you found it covered slavery too much PP, then it says a lot about you.

[Mamyalynne]

I enjoyed the first part of the history from 5 Grosvenor Mount.