Hidden Killers of the English Home

Suzannah Lipscomb investigates the domestic horrors of home life in the 19th century and discovers that the Victorian ideal of `safe as houses' was far from the reality.

The 20th century ushered in innovations that transformed the way we lived, but a lack of understanding of the potential hazards meant that they frequently led to terrible accidents, horrendous injuries and even death.

Dr Suzannah Lipscomb takes us back to Tudor times in search of the household killers of the era; it was an age of exploration and science where adventurers returned from the New World with exotic goods previously unknown in Europe.