Episodes

1: Mods, Rockers and Bank Holiday Mayhem

May 26, 2014

A look back at the bank holiday 'battles of the beaches', when hundreds of mods and rockers flocked to seaside resorts on scooters and motorbikes in search of thrills and spills.

2: Killer Storms and Cruel Winters - The History of Extreme Weather

Jul 28, 2014

Lucie Green looks back through Britain's most dramatic weather history and sees how our reactions helped forge a weather science that today allows us to predict the worst extremes.

3: Bullseyes and Beer: When Darts Hit Britain

Dec 15, 2014

How a traditional working-class pub game became a national obsession during the 1970s and 80s, and how television played a key role in elevating its players into household names.

4: Battle for the Himalayas: The Fight to Film Everest

Jan 29, 2015

The story of how film-makers turned the conquest of Himalayan peaks into great propaganda by Imperial Britain, Nazi Germany and superpower America from the 1920s to the 1960s.

5: The Nation's Railway: The Golden Age of British Rail

Feb 24, 2015

Using the British Transport Films archive, Timeshift revisits Britain's railways during the era of public ownership in a corrective to the myth of the bad old days of rail.

6: Spicing Up Britain: How Eating Out Went Exotic

Mar 11, 2015

How postwar Britain went from a place where eating out was more of a chore than a pleasure to a nation of food adventurers, thanks to generations of migrants opening eateries.

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