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      • 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. A fifth series, in 2024, features apartment blocks in London and Berlin.
      The programme is presented by David Olusoga, who is Professor of Public History at Manchester University. The series consultant is design historian Professor Deborah Sugg Ryan, of the University of Portsmouth, who also appears in each episode.


      Episodes




      = Series 1 (2018)

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      The first series features the house at 62 Falkner Street in the Canning area of Liverpool.


      = Series 2 (2019)

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      Series two featured 5 Ravensworth Terrace, a Georgian-era terraced house in the Summerhill area of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and began broadcast on BBC Two on 8 April 2019. 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. The house has been Grade II listed since June 1976.


      = Series 3 (2020)

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      The third series takes place in Bristol, investigating the history of 10 Guinea Street, 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)

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











      = Series 5 (2024)

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      Series 5, subtitled Two Cities at War, takes a different approach, comparing and contrasting the lives of the inhabitants of two apartment blocks—Block 2 of Montagu Mansions, an Edwardian building in the Marylebone district of London and 72, Pfalzburger Strasse in Wilmersdorf, Berlin—in the years leading up to and during World War II. Residents in London included the cinema impresario Cecil Bernstein and the poet and conscientious objector Timothy Corsellis, and in Berlin the chef and language teacher, Bonifatius Folli, from Togo, the historian and nazi, Paul Dittel, and Freda Fromm, whose brother Friedrich Fromm was a regular vistor.











      See also


      The Secret History of Our Streets


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      References




      External links


      A House Through Time at BBC Online
      A House Through Time at IMDb

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