What the Victorians Did for Us

What the Victorians Did for Us

Infobox Television
show_name = What the Victorians Did for Us


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genre = Documentary
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presenter = Adam Hart-Davis
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country = UK
language = English
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num_episodes = 8
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distributor = BBC
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producer = Caroline van den Brul
Cameron Balbirnie
Prim Bath
Annabel Gillings
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editor = Ben Giles
David Murray
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runtime = 23 minutes
channel = BBC Two
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first_aired = September 3
last_aired = October 22, 2001
preceded_by = What the Romans Did for Us
followed_by = What the Tudors Did for Us
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website = http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/
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imdb_id = 0331808
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"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.


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