Time Team Specials

The Way We Lived
First Broadcast: Sun 8 May 2011

Tony Robinson and Mick Aston dig out the best bits of over 200 Time Team episodes to tell the story of how our domestic lives have changed over 10 millennia.

Until about 10,000 years ago our ancestors moved from site to site setting up house where they could find food and water. Then everything changed. People realised they could control the land, stay put and build more permanent and more comfortable houses.

Tony and Mick reveal how those very first houses evolved into what we know today, and find out how settling down changed the way we live.

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      Tony Robinson and Mick Aston dig out the best bits of over 200 Time Team episodes to tell the story of how our domestic…

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    7. Tony Robinson in Westminster Abbey The Secrets of Westminster Abbey Mon 28 Jun 2010

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    8. Tony Robinson in Portsmouth Nelson's Hospital Mon 17 May 2010

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    11. Ship's Crest The Wreck of the Colossus Thu 16 Apr 2009

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    15. Michael Brennan D-Day Sat 15 Nov 2008

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