Hidden Killers

Dr Suzannah Lipscomb reveals the lethal killers that lurked in every room of the Victorian home and shows how they were unmasked. What new innovation killed thousands of babies?

Dr Suzannah Lipscomb takes us back to the Victorian era when cities were expanding and mass consumerism took hold.

Dr Suzannah Lipscomb explores how electricity, refrigeration and a whole host of different materials promised to make life at home brighter.

Dr Suzannah Lipscomb ventures into the Tudor home in search of the household killers of the era. It was a time of radical evolution in the very idea of the home.