Four 21st century bakers bake their way through the era that gave us modern baking as we know it - the reign of Queen Victoria. Experts Alex Langlands and Annie Gray join them to tell the incredible ...

BBC Two has commissioned a new three-part factual series about baking. Working title Victorian Bakers, the show follows a team of modern bakers as they recreate the lives of their Victorian ...

Shows like The Great British Bake Off have wetted the nation's appetite for watching people serve up tasy dishes. Now the Black Country Living Museum is showing how it was done in days gone by as part ...

Our traditional English Christmas – cards and crackers, roast turkey, plum pudding, a cake iced with a snowscene – isn’t actually traditional at all. Christmas as we know it is a Victorian invention, ...

You’ve probably bought an extra loaf for today’s turkey sandwiches, but in Victorian England the average family of six got through 55lb of bread a week. That’s the equivalent of 31 of our supermarket ...

“I’m adding water and salt content because my sweat’s dripping in the dough!” So declares a baker who’s been plucked from his nice modern kitchen and made to bake bread the Victorian way. You’ll see ...

In the rising-falling skirts of a nation, some say, we can trace the fluctuations of the economy, the hopes and fears of the generation, the impact of change. The hemline theory, of course, can be ...

Barnsley baker John Foster has been back to Victorian times for a new BBC programme. Catherine Scott reports. When Jon Foster saw an advert in a trade magazine for bakers to take part in an historical ...

Victorian Bakers is back for Christmas. In this one-off special, our four professional bakers discover the role their trade played in creating Christmas as we know it today. Historians Alex Langlands ...