The 1900 House

The 1900 House
PAL VHS cover (UK)
GenreHistorical reenactment reality television
Country of origin
  • United States
  • United Kingdom
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes
  • 10 (UK)
  • 5 (U.S.)
Production
Running time
  • 50 min. (ep. 1, UK)
  • 24 min. (eps. 2–9, UK)
  • 77 min. (ep. 10, UK)
  • 60 min. (U.S.)
Original release
Network
Release28 December 1999 (1999-12-28) 
3 July 2000 (2000-07-03)

The 1900 House is a historical reenactment reality television series made by Wall to Wall/Channel 4 in 1999. The programme features a modern family attempting to live in the way of the late Victorians for three months in a modified house. It was first broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom and PBS in America (with American commentary).

The series was accompanied by the book 1900 House: Featuring Extracts from the Personal Diaries of Joyce and Paul Bowler and Their Family by Mark McCrum and Matthew Sturgis. It won a Peabody Award in 2000 for being "an often humorous, always perceptive, series about the realities of life in 1900 that reveals themes of perseverance, human adaptation and family dynamics."