Handmade history
The Victorian House of Arts and Crafts TV BBC Two Scheduled for January
Viewing industrialisation as a dehumanising process, Arts and Crafts luminaries William Morris, John Ruskin and Gertrude Jekyll looked back to an earlier age. For them, self-sufficiency, closeness to nature and taking pride in creating lovingly crafted goods were ways to forge a better society.
What would it be like to live by these ideals? In a new living history series, six modern-day craftspeople are set the task of using traditional methods and working collectively to renovate different rooms in an Arts and Crafts-style property.