Reel History of BritainEpisodes Episode guide
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Beside the Seaside
20/20Melvyn Bragg looks back to the 1950s and the heyday of the British seaside holiday.
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Dawn of a New Era
19/20A look back to the 1900s and the invention of the film camera.
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The End of the Line
18/20A look back to when the Beeching Axe led to the closure of over 2,000 railway stations.
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Streets in the Sky
17/20A look back to the 1960s, when high-rise housing promised a better way of living.
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Long to Reign Over Us
16/20Melvyn Bragg looks back to the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Britain's Secondary Modern Schools
15/20The 1960s was a time when the eleven-plus exam could map out a child's future.
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Britain's Green and Pleasant Land
14/20A look back at the 1930s and how unmechanised rural life in Britain used to be.
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A Right Royal Knees Up
13/20In 1977, a right royal knees-up was taking place in honour of the Queen's Silver Jubilee.
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Steel Ships and Iron Men
12/20A look back to the 1930s when Britain's shipyards were fighting to survive.
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The Birth of the NHS
11/20Aneira Thomas shares her remarkable claim to fame, as the first baby born on the NHS.
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Sun, Sea and Sangria
10/20Charting the advent of the Mediterranean package holiday.
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The Glory Days of Fishing
9/20A look back to the 1920s and the heyday of British fishing.
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Britain On the Move
8/20Looking back to the eve of popular car ownership in the 60s.
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Britain's National Disgrace
7/20A look back to the 1930s, when millions of Britons lived in the squalor of urban slums.
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Britain's Home Guard
6/20Melvyn visits the site of the first Home Guard training school in Osterley.
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The Roaring Twenties
5/20At Cliveden House in Berkshire, Melvyn looks back to the Roaring Twenties.
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Britain's Black Diamonds
4/20In south Wales, Melvyn Bragg looks back to the 1930s and salutes Britain's coal miners.
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Soldier, Soldier
3/20In Preston, Melvyn Bragg looks back to the First World War.
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Britain's First Teenagers
2/20Melvyn Bragg looks back at when Britain broke free of the burdens of World War II.
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Britain's Wartime Evacuees
1/20In Torquay, Melvyn Bragg looks back to the 1940s and wartime evacuation.
