A House Through Time

Have you been watching the BBC Two series A House Through Time?  The series started in 2018 and follows historian David Olusoga as he traces the history of a single house, uncovering the lives of the people who lived there throughout centuries of British history. There have been four series of A House Through Time altogether, tracing the history of houses in Liverpool, Newcastle, Bristol and Leeds.

The BBC has just announced that A House Through Time will return again in 2023 - but there's a twist.  This new series will look at the history of two apartment blocks, one in London, the other in Berlin, over three decades, from the Roaring Twenties to the aftermath of the Second World War.

The BBC's press release says: "Using painstaking detective work, David hunts down records for the diverse residents of two buildings in two great cities. The cast of characters includes a soldier, an artist, a Nazi teacher, an African academic, a Jewish refugee, an Italian waiter, a poet, a prisoner of war, a woman spy, and an SS officer.

So keep an eye out for the new series, and if you haven't watched the earlier episodes, take a look.  They are a fascinating glimpse of the past and the lives our ancestors may have lived.