BBC Historic Farm Series

BBC Two's historical farm series are five documentary series first broadcast on BBC Two from 2005 to 2013. They illustrate the lives of people: farmers, labourers, fishermen, housewives, etc. in a variety of historical contexts. Historians and archaeologists play the parts of ordinary people and live and work immersed in the time specified. The team perform the everyday crafts such as hunting, gathering, sowing and reaping as well as experimenting with more specialised work like blacksmithing, woodcutting and mining under the eyes of an experienced tutor. Each series (save the first) has taken place at a public living history site that provides external in-period experts, experience, and flavour. The Wartime Farm series includes conversations with men and women who remember the time. All were produced by David Upshal for Lion Television.

Related series

Several other shorter series featuring the same people and production staff have been made:
* '' A Tudor Feast at Christmas'', at Haddon Hall, 1 episode (2006)
* ''Victorian Farm Christmas'', 3 episodes (2009)
* ''Victorian Pharmacy'' at Blists Hill Victorian Town, 4 episodes (2010) (also featuring Ruth Goodman, this time with Professor Nick Barber, who provided the necessary medical and pharmaceutical knowledge to create safer versions of many of the dangerous remedies used at the time, and Tom Quick, a PhD student.)
* '' A Wartime Farm Christmas Special'', 1 episode (2012)
* '' Secrets of the Castle'' at Guédelon Castle, 5 episodes (2014)
*
Victorian Bakers
' at Blists Hill Victorian Town, 4 episodes (2016) (presented by Alex Langlands with Annie Gray, featuring 4 modern bakers)

''Full Steam Ahead''
courtesy of British Rail, 6 episodes (2016), filmed predominantly at the Beamish Museum.
* ''24 Hours in the Past'', 4 episodes (2015) (presented by Ruth Goodman with Fi Glover, featuring 6 British celebrities experiencing 24 hours in 4 working-class occupations/lives)

Other "living history" BBC series

* ''The Victorian Kitchen Garden'' at Leverton, Berkshire (near Chilton Foliat, Wiltshire), 13 episodes (1987).
** ''The Victorian Kitchen'' (with Ruth Mott), 1989.
** ''The Victorian Flower Garden'', 1991.
** ''The Wartime Kitchen and Garden'', 1993.
** ''Harry's Big Adventure'', 1994.
* ''The Sweet Makers'' at Blists Hill Victorian Town, Shrophire, 3 episodes and a Christmas special (2017).
* ''Victorian Slum House'' in the East End of London, 5 episodes (2016) - London slum life during Victorian era.
* ''The 1900 House'' at 50 Elliscombe Road, Charlton, South-East London, 10 episodes (1999).
* ''The 1940s House'' at 17 Braemar Gardens, West Wickham, Kent, 5 episodes (2001) – a family "living" through the Second World War.
* ''The Edwardian Country House'' at Manderston, 2002 (6 episodes).
* '' Treats From The Edwardian Country House'', 2002 (6 episodes).
* ''Regency House Party'', at Kentchurch Court, 2004 (8 episodes).
* ''Coal House'', at Stack Square in the Welsh hills of Blaenavon, 2009 (12 episodes) – a 1920s Welsh mining community, including a 1944 wartime special.
* '' The 1900 Island'', at Anglesey, 2019 (4 episodes) - a 1900 fishing village in Anglesey
* ''Turn Back Time – The High Street'', at Shepton Mallet in Somerset, 2010 (6 episodes)
**
Turn Back Time: The Family
', on Albert Road, at Morecambe in Lancashire, 2012-2012\ (5 episodes).
* '' Back in Time for...'', 2015; each series takes one "typical" family or multiple individuals relating to the topic (e.g., factory workers in Back in Time for the Factory) and immerses them in life of past decades.
* ''The Victorian House of Arts and Crafts'', 2019 (4 episodes)

References

Reenactment of the late modern period
Historical reality television series

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