The Secret History of My Family Season 1 Episode 4 - The Nelsons and Margaret Marchant

Airdate: 2016-Mar-31

Episode summary:

The story of an Edwardian family locked in benefit dependency, and of a mother, accused of a shocking crime against her own child. Did the welfare given to Susan Nelson's family provide her descendants with the chance to move up in life?More than a hundred years on, some of Susan's descendants remain trapped in patterns of benefit dependency – while others have freed their families from the grinding poverty of their ancestor. But was it government welfare or hard graft that liberated them from their past?

About The Secret History of My Family series:

The Secret History of My Family is a series on social mobility and social stasis. It will use the stories, struggle and triumphs of the families th...Show more >