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In this episode, a terrifying
disease stalks the house. Lives are wrecked by domestic
violence and adultery. "This affair had been conducted
at the Hanover Hotel, "Hanover Street, Liverpool." And a mysterious body is pulled
from the Mersey. "A man unknown." I'm going on the ultimate detective
hunt to uncover lives that haven't been recorded
in the history books, but which can tell us a new version
of our nation's past, a new history of Britain hidden
within the walls of a single house
disease stalks the house. Lives are wrecked by domestic
violence and adultery. "This affair had been conducted
at the Hanover Hotel, "Hanover Street, Liverpool." And a mysterious body is pulled
from the Mersey. "A man unknown." I'm going on the ultimate detective
hunt to uncover lives that haven't been recorded
in the history books, but which can tell us a new version
of our nation's past, a new history of Britain hidden
within the walls of a single house
Full Transcript
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In this episode, a terrifying
disease stalks the house.
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Lives are wrecked by domestic
violence and adultery.
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"This affair had been conducted
at the Hanover Hotel,
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"Hanover Street, Liverpool."
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And a mysterious body is pulled
from the Mersey.
00:00:18.036 --> 00:00:20.998
"A man unknown."
00:00:21.012 --> 00:00:24.052
I'm going on the ultimate detective
hunt to uncover lives
00:00:24.052 --> 00:00:27.048
that haven't been recorded
in the history books,
00:00:27.048 --> 00:00:31.052
but which can tell us a new version
of our nation's past,
00:00:31.052 --> 00:00:35.879
a new history of Britain hidden
within the walls of a single house.
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Movie Summary
Historian David Olusoga charts 180 years of British history as lived by the successive inhabitants of a single home in a British city - from its construction to the present day.