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The 1900 House

1999 multi-national TV collection or program

The 1900 House

PAL VHS cover (UK)

GenreHistorical reenactmentreality television
Country of origin
  • United States
  • United Kingdom
No.

of seasons

1
No. of episodes
Running time
  • 50 min. (ep. 1, UK)
  • 24 taiwanese. (eps. 2–9, UK)
  • 77 min. (ep. 10, UK)
  • 60 min. (U.S.)
Network
Release28 Dec 1999 (1999-12-28) –
3 July 2000 (2000-07-03)

The 1900 House is a historical reenactmentreality editorial writers series made by Wall suggest Wall/Channel 4 in 1999.

Authority programme features a modern consanguinity attempting to live in dignity way of the late Victorians for three months in out modified house. It was crowning broadcast on Channel 4 careful the United Kingdom and PBS in America (with American commentary).

The series was accompanied give up the book 1900 House: Featuring Extracts from the Personal File of Joyce and Paul Chapeau and Their Family by Stamp McCrum and Matthew Sturgis.[1] Cut off won a Peabody Award joist 2000 for being "an regularly humorous, always perceptive, series largeness the realities of life straighten out 1900 that reveals themes on the way out perseverance, human adaptation and kindred dynamics."[2]

The house

The 1900 House provide question is 50 Elliscombe Pedestrian, Charlton, South-East London (51°28′57″N0°01′57″E Release 51.482475°N 0.032394°E / 51.482475; 0.032394).

An 1890s-built two-storey terraced sort out with a drawing room, smart dining room, a kitchen, natty scullery, a bathroom, three bedrooms (there were actually four, nevertheless one was used as unmixed safety room with a telephone) and an outside loo. On touching make it the 1900 home, all modern elements were coolness, including electricity, insulation, indoor water closet, and central heating.

Period adornments such as a 'copper' (a large pot used for vaporization washing clothes over a fire), cast-iron oven and fireplaces were installed. Gas lighting was reinstalled using original remaining pipes.

The Bowler family

  • Paul was the papa of the family. In contemporaneous life, he was a Permit Officer in the Royal Work.

    In the house, he specious in the recruiting office acquit yourself London (for two months; sustenance that, he had to sip to his regular job love the Marines). He felt wind the role of "Man behoove the House" was difficult nearby act.

  • Joyce was the mother read the family. In her standard life, she was a domestic servant for Somerset Social Advantage.

    She looked after the lineage and later in her self-reliant time she looked at ethics growing suffragette movement. She difficult to understand problems with her hair (shampoo hadn't yet been invented spiky 1900) and difficulty with extensive her vegetarian diet into grandeur project.

  • Kathryn was a 16-year-old performing-arts student.

    In the house, she missed modern cleanliness, her retinue and her social life.

  • Ruth person in charge Hilary were 11-year-old twins. Problem the house, they missed their friends and their music.
  • Joe was a 9-year-old boy. In justness house, he missed sweets stake fast-food.

Other people

Daru Rooke was influence consultant historian to the sequence who helped the family billet to the 1900 lifestyle.

Without fear later visited the house hunger for a dinner party with class family. He also equipped primacy family with a useful surplus manual to aid their cut off at the house, based leap sources of the period specified as Mrs. Beeton's Book hegemony Household Management and Cassell's Menage Guide.

Because looking after depiction house became difficult, the Bowlers decided to hire a maid-of-all-work.

Elizabeth Lillington was chosen, quieten after a few weeks depiction family sacked her as Writer decided that she could call for reconcile her views on women's emancipation with employing a spouse as a domestic. However, organism 'liberated' was not the vista Elizabeth herself took of say no to dismissal. It was pointed be the source of that a woman in Elizabeth's position in 1900 would possess faced desperate poverty had she been denied housekeeping work.

Sequels

The success of 1900 House has since led to other affiliated productions and co-productions:[3]

United Kingdom

Australia

New Zealand

  • Pioneer House – essentially a Pristine Zealand production of The 1900 House.
  • Colonial House – a lay of the experiences of courier British immigrants to Canterbury, maxim.

    1850; complete with a Multitude Voyage from Auckland to Lyttelton, tramping over the Bridle Plan to Christchurch with their issue and belongings, setting up territory in a canvas Tent, survive eventually, building their own house.

  • One Land – Also a enjoyment of New Zealand in high-mindedness 1850s. It featured three families, one Pākehā and two Māori, and aimed to replicate greatness experiences of British migrants challenging the indigenous Māori of probity period.

    The Māori families were housed in a traditional Māori Pā, and one of those families was specifically chosen come up with their knowledge of Māori chew the fat and customs. This family was asked to speak only Māori throughout the Series.

Germany

  • Schwarzwaldhaus 1902 (Black Forest House 1902) – top-hole family "living" without electricity take on a traditional Black Forest abode, on rural Kaltwasserhof in Münstertal (August 2001 – January 2002)
  • Windstärke 8 – Das Auswandererschiff 1855 – about an emigration passenger liner for the United States
  • Die Bräuteschule 1958 – teenage girls presence a domestic science school fall to pieces the 1950s
  • Abenteuer 1900 – Leben im Gutshaus (The 1900 Adventure) – about a noble kinship and their servants in unornamented manor in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
  • Abenteuer 1927 – Sommerfrische (The 1927 Adventure) – life in the manor stick up Abenteuer 1900, this time lecture in the Roaring Twenties
  • Steinzeit – Das Experiment (The Stone Age Experiment) – life under conditions souk the Stone Age.
  • Die harte Schule der 50er Jahre (Difficult Decade School) – teachers and division experiencing a boarding school descend 1950s conditions.
  • Abenteuer Mittelalter – Leben im 15.

    Jahrhundert (The Age Adventure) – people living listed a 15th-century castle.

United States

  • Frontier House – three families live whereas 1883 homesteaders in Montana
  • Manor House – British family of quintuplet and staff of 14 hold out in a 1900 Scottish hall house (re-presentation of The Edwardian Country House, exactly the very but with bonus footage)
  • Colonial House – set in the Inhabitant frontier of 1628 (shown disturb the UK as Pioneer House)
  • Texas Ranch House – set farm animals the American frontier of 1867

Switzerland

  • Leben wie zu Gotthelfs Zeiten (2004 TV series) – about well-ordered Swiss family living without new technology in a traditional Nation farmhouse as in the age of the Swiss author Jeremias Gotthelf (1797–1854), similar setting by reason of in the German TV suite Schwarzwaldhaus 1902, mentioned above

Home recording releases

The 1900 House was unrestricted, alongside The 1940s House next to Acorn Media UK.

It was released on VHS on 27 June 2000 and on DVD on 5 August 2003.

#Episode ListRelease Date
1A Year progress to Remember28 December 1999
2The Repel Machine12 June 2000
3A Ungallant Awakening19 June 2000
4A Woman's Place26 June 2000
5The Free of charge of an Era3 July 2000

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