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At Home with the Georgians

Amanda Vickery

Ross Wilson

Phil Cairney

At Home with the Georgians: Episode 3: Safe as Houses

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Safe as Houses

Episode 3

Episode 3: Safe as Houses

BBC Two - At Home with the Georgians, Safe as Houses

Historian Amanda Vickery reveals how the 18th-century home was constantly under threat.

Historian Amanda Vickery reveals how the 18th century home was constantly under threat. How did the Georgians make their houses havens of safety and security?

In this final part of the series about how the British obsession with our homes began 300 years ago, historian Amanda Vickery uses sources, from intimate diaries to Old Bailey records, to reveal how the 18th-century home was constantly under threat from theft, fire, divorce, poverty, illness, old age and death. 

Georgian houses may seem like sanctuaries of calm elegance to us today, but at the time they were noisy chaotic places bursting with extended families, servants and lodgers and threatened by the lawlessness of Georgian streets. How did the Georgians make their houses havens of safety and security? How did the Englishman fight to make his home his castle?

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Amanda Vickery explores how the British obsession with our homes began 300 years ago

In this three part series, historian Amanda Vickery explores how the great British obsession with our homes began 300 years ago

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