THE LAST few years have seen a new approach to the portrayal of history on TV. Long gone are programmes featuring stuffy academics bombarding us with facts and dates, droning on about which Pope excommunicated which king, or who fought in which battle against who. Now, so-called ‘immersive history’ shows such as Living in the Past, The 1940s House and Back In Time bring bygone times to life by getting people to live as our ancestors did, experiencing history through their eyes.
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And a new Channel 4 show will use this immersive technique to explore what life would
