The 1900 House

*The 1900 House*
The 1900 House
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Genre	Historical reenactment reality television
Country of origin	United States; United Kingdom;
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	10 (UK); 5 (U.S.);
Production
Running time	50 min. (ep. 1, UK); 24 min. (eps. 2–9, UK); 77 min. (ep. 10, UK); 60 min. (U.S.);
Original release
Network	Channel 4; PBS;
Release	28 December 1999 –; 3 July 2000
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The 1900 House is a historical reenactment reality television series made by Wall to Wall/Channel 4 in 1999. The programme features a modern family attempting to live in the way of the late Victorians for three months in a modified house. It was first broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom and PBS in America (with American commentary).

The series was accompanied by the book 1900 House: Featuring Extracts from the Personal Diaries of Joyce and Paul Bowler and Their Family by Mark McCrum and Matthew Sturgis.^[1] It won a Peabody Award in 2000 for being "an often humorous, always perceptive, series about the realities of life in 1900 that reveals themes of perseverance, human adaptation and family dynamics."^[2]

^ Macmillan, London, 1999. ISBN 978-0-7522-1711-6
^ "1900 House (PBS)". Peabody Awards. Archived from the original on 11 January 2020. Retrieved 4 May 2021.

[1] Macmillan, London, 1999. ISBN 978-0-7522-1711-6

[2] "1900 House (PBS)". Peabody Awards. Archived from the original on 11 January 2020. Retrieved 4 May 2021.

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