Ian Hislop's Olden Days — Season 1, Episode 2: Forward into the Past
Documentary • 60 min • 1 season, 3 episodes • ★ 6.0/10
Episode synopsis
Ian Hislop travels back to the era of the Industrial Revolution and Victorian Britain. This was a time of some of the greatest progress and modernisation the country had ever seen - and yet, throughout these decades, writers, artists and politicians were trying to make sense of this new world by retreating into a very old world indeed: the Middle Ages.
About Ian Hislop's Olden Days
Ian Hislop explores the British obsession with the past. He reveals how and why, throughout our history, we have continually plundered 'the olden days' to make sense of and shape the present.