The Secret History of My Family: The Manleys & the Hunts

The documentary charting social history by exploring different family trees continues with the story of Lavinia and Florence, two Victorian women from opposite ends of the social scale who were brought together by domestic violence. One was desperate to feed her six children in 1880s London, the other came from a lavish county home and ventured into the slum to help a fellow mother. The film tells the saga of a woman from the workhouse whose descendant ended up at Eton and a family from the landed gentry who threw off the burden of their past