The Secret History of My Family: The Gadbury Sisters

Documentary charting 200 years of social history by exploring four different family trees. The project started off with a number of upper-class residents and slum dwellers from Victorian Britain, then traced them forward to learn their stories, ultimately hearing first-hand from their living descendants. The first edition focuses on a trio of pickpocketing sisters raised in 1830s Shoreditch, two of whom were banished to Australia. Their descendants include two Supreme Court judges, a bin man and a window cleaner