How We Used To Live (1968)

Genre

drama television series, children's television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

7 seasons, 91 episodes

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This series follows fictional Yorkshire families through different time periods from the Victorian era to the 1970s. It mixes short dramas with real archive footage to show what life was like in the past.

educationaldramatichistoricalnostalgicseriousinformativeslow-burn

What happens

How We Used to Live was a long-running British educational history television series, produced for most of its run by Yorkshire Television. The series, encompassing drama and documentary, remained in sporadic production from 1968 to 2002, airing on ITV and Channel 4. Written by Freda Kelsall, the series traced the lives and fortunes of various fictional Yorkshire families from the Victorian era until the early 1970s, in and around the fictional town of Bradley, using self-contained short dramas interspersed with archive footage. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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