ChatterBank0 min ago
Why are TV history programmes so popular?
I find this an intriguing question... any thoughts greatly appreciated. x
Answers
No best answer has yet been selected by LouBoo. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.
For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Not sure if you mean history documentaries, or history dramas, or both.
I do think it is partly an age thing. When you are a young person you mainly think and worry about today, or that evening, or the coming weekend.
But as you get older you start to look wider, and you realise that a lot of what happened in history effects the way we live today.
Why are we not a catholic country when France and Italy are (and we were).
How did the first and second world war start.
Why was Britain so powerful in the Victorian era.
Why was Hadrians wall built, or Stonehenge, or Carnaveon Castle.
Why did Guy Fawkes try to blow up parliament.
Why was Charles 1st beheaded.
Why did we have a civil war ?
Questions like that just get you so interested in history.
A survey recently claimed that the history channel has a dated viewer age of 50+years.Our nation is top heavey with elderly people.Therefore mainly retired with more time to watch these programes.(Yet less time to get the answers.!!) Also reliving their lives with modern history ie 2nd worl war programes/early space travel/corenation 1953 etc
"With the present uncertain and the future unknown, we take refuge in the past"
I think we (the nation) are becoming more interested in the past because we're not very happy with the present and don't see much of a future!