A House Through Time Series 3 starts on Tuesday at 9

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An 18th century house in Bristol this time

I almost applied for that Strathclyde course last year but then decided that I couldn't really justify the 3k per year just for a hobby and I would only want to do it for the full course.

LOL at watered down milk!

I love this programme. I’m also fairly taken by David Olusoga. 😍

One thing I’d like to have been told about the Bristol house, who was Captain B who said the daughter of the house was a common prostitute and why did he say it? I wish they’d explained that.

It's who do you think you are for houses, really, isn't it?

Lovrd the Newcastle one, naturally. It's singled out by being a small refidential area in what is mainly a business district.

The research is fantastic. I'm wondering whether the rest of the street was bombed, hence the block of flats next door.

I love Bristol but I never know which bit is supposed to be the centre. I can never find my way around it.

I love this programme. I didn’t notice too many assumptions as David would say we can’t know this for sure but we think it’s possible. And I like calling him David and pretending he is my partner 🥰🥰

And I like calling him David and pretending he is my partner 🥰🥰

Get off. I’ll fight you for him. 😂

@CherrySpritz

And I like calling him David and pretending he is my partner 🥰🥰

Get off. I’ll fight you for him. 😂

Hee hee Cherry. Can I just compliment you on your excellent taste?

I used to work with Mel Backe-Hansen, who is a ‘house historian’ and works on this programme with David Olusoga. If you follow her on Twitter she shares lots of interesting information and she’s written books on house histories too. From what I can see you can hire her to investigate the history of your own house. I have major career jealousy.

I loved in Bristol for a few years in the mid 70s when there were a lot of beautiful old houses in a very run down condition. They were mainly grotty bed sits and squats, I lived in some of them. I think, at that time, nobody had the money to restore them or, in many cases, just put them into a habitable condition.

Just announced the next series is in Leeds! Hurray.

The house in Bristol has just appeared on Right Move today:

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-80999032.html

And can I add my name to the list of those fighting over David Olusoga please?

And me for David.

It's a beautiful house and has a a great advert. I'm not so sure about the location though.

I didn't enjoy the last episode - pumping a woman, who lived in the house as a child, for an emotional reaction to a guy gassing himself in the basement was a low.
Also I'm tired of the way that his presentation is so mannered. Every sentence starts off at normal volume and goes down to really quiet at the end.
And when the older woman committed suicide after her husband's death. he blithely made whacking great assumptions about the motive. Just ghoulish.

I thought that the woman believed he had gassed himself but David showed her the coroner's report concluded he hadn't. This might have been a relief to her. However, I know coroners were reluctant to rule on suicide as it was still illegal then and in any case, he shouldn't have been messing about with a gas pipe, it was lucky he didn't blow up the house.

yes, you're right. My mistake

It's amazing that so many original features remain. I wonder if the range in the bathroom works! The light in the house is really nice.

@JaneJeffer

It's amazing that so many original features remain. I wonder if the range in the bathroom works! The light in the house is really nice.

That's probably one advantage of there not having been any money around in earlier decades to do a 60s or 70s makeover.

@JaneJeffer

It's amazing that so many original features remain. I wonder if the range in the bathroom works! The light in the house is really nice.

I think it’s lovely that they do. You see so many houses that look period on the outside but the interiors have been stripped of every bit of history and originality and now look totally soulless and boring.

then in swans David and gives the impression he's done it all!
I dont think he gives that impression. He mentions the team quite a bit and says how much digging they had to do at times when things have been tricky to find.
I think some of the things are more educated guess that would have been in line with social thinking and morals of the era. He offers them as possible explanations why events could have occurred.

Im a buildings archaeologist and love it when I have to do the background reseach. The real whoopee moment is when I find old photographs or an interesting occupant

Anyone can research the history of their house of local area. If you fancy losing a lot of time during locakdown you can look at old maps for free on the national library of scotland website here

@mateysmum

I almost applied for that Strathclyde course last year but then decided that I couldn't really justify the 3k per year just for a hobby and I would only want to do it for the full course.

A few years ago I had the luxury of having both the time and funds to take what was a hobby course for me. It changed my life. It acted as a springboard for me to explore the area in a lot of more detail. I dont work in the field professionally but have just started research for a paper that I hope to give to a very well respected society. Probably 2-3 years away but I would have been unlikely to have done this without the foundation of what I learned on the course. So go for it!

That's interesting spongedog. Good luck with your paper.

I have written up the history of my family - 60k words plus, but just to share around the family - and thought the course would expand my research horizons and teach me how to "professionalise" my research and presentation, especially if I decided to do (amateur) research for other people. I have a history degree, so a good basis on which to start.

How was the quality of the course and how many hours per week did you spend on it?

I have really enjoyed this series, and will look out for the other cities too, it reminds me of the bbc2 series a while back that charted the ups and downs of different streets in London. The only thing about the Bristol house was that the majority of the stories were of misery and upset...I don't think I'd want to live in a house that was built on slavery and had seen so much sorrow, despite how lovely it is now (also I don't have £800k...or live in Bristol...)

Recently I was telling a neighbour the whole history of everyone who had ever lived in our terrace of 5 townhouses. We were the first to move in in 2006 - we know everything!

My previous house was a victorian terrace and I had a copy of the deeds of everyone who had owned it. It was a workers cottage bought from the brickworks in the 1960s.