Synopsis
Featuring dramatised versions of true stories that shocked mainstream Victorian society.
Episodes
Season 11E1The Frontiers of ScienceA group of con artists posing as spiritualists go head to head with a real one.55m2E2SkittlesThe story of Catherine 'Skittles' Walters, a notorious Victorian courtesan.55m3E3The Portland MillionsAnnie Druce claims she is the heir to the Duke of Portland.55m4E4A Pitcher of SnakesAuthors Charlotte Brontë and William Makepeace Thackeray attend the same dinner party when the hostess's husband suddenly arrives and wants his wife to come back to him.55m5E5HannahScholar and photographer Arthur Munby orchestrates a study of working-class women, and secretly marries Hannah Cullwick, who continues to pose as his servant.55m6E6The Fruits of PhilosophyAn attempt to publish a pamphlet advocating birth control results in a notorious prosecution for obscenity.55m7E7BelovedWhen Henry James Prince is dismissed from his post as a curate, he decides to found his own religion called the Abode of Love.55m
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