Ian Hislop rescues the reputation of the maverick 'Do-Gooders' who he believes fixed the 19th century's version of 'broken Britain' in this new history series. Irresistibly easy to mock, these busy bodies are highly unfashionable today. But they are heroes to Ian - extraordinary men and women who precipitated the most remarkable period of social change in British history and, Ian argues, left us with a nation worth living in. And yet unlike notable Victorian royals, inventors, politicians and generals, many of them have been all but forgotten.
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Ian Hislop
Self - Presenter

Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days

Wonderland: From JM Barrie to JRR Tolkien
Wonderland: From JM Barrie to JRR Tolkien

Dickens
Dickens

Decolonisation
Decolonisation

Victorian Pharmacy
Victorian Pharmacy

How the Victorians Built Britain
How the Victorians Built Britain

Royal Mob
Royal Mob

The Victorian Flower Garden
The Victorian Flower Garden

Prohibition
Prohibition

The Civil War
The Civil War

Brothers at War
Brothers at War

Karin och Carl Larsson
Karin och Carl Larsson