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What the Victorians Did for Us
What the Victorians Did for Us is a 2001 BBC documentary series that examines the impact of the Victorian era on modern society. It concentrates primarily on the scientific and social advances of the era, which bore the Industrial Revolution and set the standards for polite society today.
Episodes.
Episodes "Rule Makers".
- Victorians standardised the rules for association football, or soccer, based on a range of games already played, such as the Eton wall game.
- Walter Clopton Wingfield
" (2000), executive producer
- "Blood of the Vikings" (2001), executive producer
- "What the Victorians Did for Us" (2001), executive producer
- "What the Tudors Did for Us" (2002), executive producer
- "Our Top Ten Treasures" (2003), executive producer
Bibliography.
- 1994. 6th Guardian Lecture, "Public Perceptions of Science: How scientists and others view the media reporting of science." Published by Nuffield College