The Edwardians

How it feels

This BBC miniseries from the 1970s has eight episodes, each about a famous person from the Edwardian era. It covers figures like Arthur Conan Doyle, Marie Lloyd, and Robert Baden-Powell, telling a separate story in each episode.

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What happens

The Edwardians is a television miniseries or anthology series which was produced by the BBC, and first aired on BBC Television in 1972–73. In the United States, the series aired on PBS's Masterpiece Theatre in 1974. Consisting of eight 90 minute episodes, each episode examines a different individual of historical importance from the Edwardian era with one episode being devoted to Henry Royce and Charles Rolls. The figures who have a single episode devoted to each are Horatio Bottomley; E. Nesbit; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Robert Baden-Powell; Marie Lloyd; Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick; and David Lloyd George. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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