Historian David Olusoga charts 180 years of British history as lived by the successive inhabitants of a single home in a British city - from its construction to the present day.
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Cast:David Olusoga , Deborah Sugg Ryan , Ian Hislop , Gaynor Evans , Wilfred Steele
David Olusoga investigates the residents of an 18th-century house in Bristol over time, uncovering stories of piracy, an abandoned baby, a notorious political writer and a runaway slave.
This edition traces the house's fortunes from the late 18th to the mid-19th century, discovering tales of scandal, domestic violence and the asylum.
We follow the house's fortunes from the 1880s through to the end of the First World War as it slides down the social scale and moves into multiple occupancy discovering stories of epidemic disease, a quack doctor and a World War I tragedy.
The third series concludes by tracing the lives of 10 Guinea Street's occupants through World War Two to the present day, discovering stories of love, loss and renewal.