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  1. Pleasure Seekers

    8/8Adam Hart-Davis discusses the growth of the leisure industry.

  2. Making It Big

    7/8Investigating the Victorian innovations that left a lasting impression on British society.

  3. Conquerors

    6/8Adam Hart-Davis visits Kew Gardens to examine the plants brought back by explorers.

  4. Social Progress

    5/8How opportunities in employment and education created the middle classes.

  5. Crime and Punishment

    4/8Adam Hart-Davis investigates the Victorian world of crime and retribution.

  6. Rule Makers

    3/8A look at how the Victorians defined a range of standards.

  7. Playing God

    2/8Including fossil hunting at Lyme Regis, a Victorian seance and devices for waking the dead

  8. Speed Merchants

    1/8Featuring the Victorian obsession with speed and the impact of steam power on farming.

  9. Shrinking World

    How technology allowed Victorians to travel across the world, into uncharted continents.