Victorian Slum House

Victorian Slum House is a historical reality television program made by Wall to Wall for BBC in 2016. In the show, a modern family tries to live in the way of the late Victorians in 1900 for three months in a modified house. It was shown on BBC in the United Kingdom and PBS in America on May 2017.

The narrative program focuses on families and individuals trying to survive the slums of east London from 1860s - 1900s.

It is along the lines and made by the same producer as The 1900 House

Sequels

Victorian Slum House is one in a line of "time capsule" reality television series. Others in the genre include (in order of their airing in various locations)

UK

• The 1900 House – A modern family attempts to live like a family in 1900 (the first series to air).
• The 1940s House – a family "living" through the Second World War.
• The Edwardian Country House
• Regency House Party
• Coal House – a 1920s Welsh mining community
• Coal House at war – a 1944 Welsh mining community

Australia

• Outback House – a family running a sheep station in 1861 Outback Australia
• The Colony - Four families and several individual "convicts" try to live life in New South Wales of 1800.

New Zealand

• Pioneer House - essentially a New Zealand production of The 1900 House.
• Colonial House - a recreation of the experiences of typical British immigrants to Canterbury, c. 1850; complete with a Sea Voyage from Auckland to Lyttelton, tramping over the Bridle Path to Christchurch with their children and belongings, setting up house in a canvas Tent, and eventually, building their own house.
• One Land - Also a recreation of New Zealand in the 1850s. It featured three families, one Pakeha and two Maori, and aimed to replicate the experiences of British migrants and the indigenous Maori of the period. The Maori families were housed in a traditional Maori Pa, and one of those families was specifically chosen for their knowledge of Maori language and customs. This family was asked to speak only Maori throughout the Series.

Germany

• Schwarzwaldhaus 1902 (Black Forest House 1902) – a family "living" without electricity in a traditional Black Forest house, on rural Kaltwasserhof in Münstertal (August 2001 - January 2002)
• Windstärke 8 – Das Auswandererschiff 1855 – about an emigration ship for the United States
• Die Bräuteschule 1958 – teenage girls attending a domestic science school in the 1950s
• Abenteuer 1900 – Leben im Gutshaus (The 1900 Adventure) – about a noble family and their servants in a manor in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
• Abenteuer 1927 – Sommerfrische (The 1927 Adventure) – life in the manor from Abenteuer 1900, this time in the Roaring Twenties
• Steinzeit – Das Experiment (The Stone Age Experiment) – life under conditions of the stone age.
• Die harte Schule der 50er Jahre (Difficult 1950s School) – teachers and students experiencing a boarding school under 1950s conditions.
• Abenteuer Mittelalter – Leben im 15. Jahrhundert (The Medieval Adventure) – people living in a 15th-century castle.

USA

• Frontier House – three families live as 1883 homesteaders in Montana
• Manor House – British family of five and staff of 14 live in a 1900 English manor house (re-presentation of The Edwardian Country House, exactly the same but with bonus footage)
• Colonial House – set in the American frontier of 1628 (shown in the UK as Pioneer House)
• Texas Ranch House – set in the American frontier of 1867

Switzerland

• Leben wie zu Gotthelfs Zeiten (2004 TV series) – about a Swiss family living without modern technology in a traditional Swiss farmhouse as in the era of the Swiss author Jeremias Gotthelf (1797–1854), similar setting as in the German TV series Schwarzwaldhaus 1902, mentioned above

External links

• Victorian Slum House at PBS