The Timeline
The PeriodDramas.com timeline is a list of period dramas organised according to the year in which each story begins. Click on any entry in the timeline to learn more about it.
Period dramas for which we do not know the year of setting are listed under Unknown.
Note that this timeline is regularly being updated; please check back often to see which new entries have been added!
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| 1945 | Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning |
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| 1937 | All Creatures Great and Small, Falling for a Dancer |
| 1936 | Ladies in Lavender, The White Countess, Upstairs Downstairs |
| 1935 | Places in the Heart |
| 1934 | South Riding |
| 1933 | Young James Herriot |
| 1932 | Cheerful Weather for the Wedding, Gosford Park |
| 1931 | Mildred Pierce, The Lady Vanishes |
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| 1929 | Bright Young Things |
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| 1927 | Quartet |
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| 1925 | The King's Speech, The Painted Veil |
| 1924 | A Passage to India |
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| 1922 | Bertie and Elizabeth, Brideshead Revisited, Little Ashes, The Great Gatsby |
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| 1920 | Lilies |
| 1919 | Chariots of Fire |
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| 1917 | The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain |
| 1916 | Britannic |
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| 1914 | Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story, The Village, When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story |
| 1913 | The Moth, The Wingless Bird |
| 1912 | A Night to Remember, Downton Abbey, No Greater Love, S.O.S. Titanic, Somewhere in Time, Titanic |
| 1911 | The Lost World |
| 1910 | The Last Station, The Swan, The Wings of the Dove |
| 1909 | Casualty 1909, Mr Selfridge, The Color Purple, The Man Who Saved Christmas |
| 1908 | The Great Race |
| 1907 | A Room With a View, Casualty 1907, Mark Twain and Me, Songcatcher |
| 1906 | Casualty 1906 |
| 1905 | Angel, The House of Mirth |
| 1904 | A Dangerous Method, Finding Neverland, Nora, Samantha: An American Girl Holiday |
| 1903 | The Little Kidnappers, Upstairs, Downstairs |
| 1902 | Berkeley Square, Bride of the Wind, Miss Potter |
| 1901 | Breaker Morant, Doctor Zhivago, Little House: The Last Farewell, The Tide of Life |
| 1900 | Letter from an Unknown Woman, Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Cherry Orchard, The Duchess of Duke Street, The Fifteen Streets, The Go-Between |
| 1899 | Cavalcade |
| 1898 | The Adventures of Ociee Nash |
| 1897 | My Brilliant Career |
| 1896 | Little House: Bless All the Dear Children |
| 1895 | An Ideal Husband, Little House: Look Back to Yesterday |
| 1894 | Bright Leaf |
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| 1891 | Lark Rise to Candleford |
| 1890 | The Christmas Candle |
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| 1888 | From Hell, Miracle at Sage Creek |
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| 1886 | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Woodlanders |
| 1885 | Freud, The Illusionist |
| 1884 | Tess, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Black Candle, The Elephant Man |
| 1883 | Feast of July |
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| 1881 | Young Winston |
| 1880 | Anna Karenina, The Private Affairs of Bel Ami |
| 1879 | Love in the Time of Cholera, The Forsyte Saga |
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| 1877 | The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James |
| 1876 | The Inheritance |
| 1875 | A Ghost in Monte Carlo, The Bostonians, The Paradise |
| 1874 | Anna Karenina, The Crimson Petal and the White, The Forsyte Saga |
| 1873 | The Buccaneers |
| 1872 | Around the World in 80 Days, The Portrait of a Lady, The Ruby in the Smoke |
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| 1870 | Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Little House on the Prairie |
| 1869 | Far from the Madding Crowd, Little House on the Prairie |
| 1868 | Lillie |
| 1867 | Penmarric, The French Lieutenant's Woman |
| 1866 | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Daniel Deronda |
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| 1864 | Mrs. Brown |
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| 1862 | Fingersmith, Friendly Persuasion, Prairie Rose, The Impressionists |
| 1861 | Gone with the Wind, Little Women |
| 1860 | The Onedin Line, The Pallisers |
| 1859 | Possession |
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| 1857 | Captains and the Kings |
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| 1855 | The Barchester Chronicles, The First Great Train Robbery |
| 1854 | The Rag Nymph, The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton |
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| 1851 | Edge of Madness, North & South, The Piano |
| 1850 | Desperate Romantics, The Europeans, The Girl, The Legend of Zorro |
| 1849 | A Dinner of Herbs, The Woman in White |
| 1848 | Fall of Eagles, The Moonstone |
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| 1845 | Meek's Cutoff |
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| 1843 | A Christmas Carol, Drovers' Gold, Scrooge |
| 1842 | Cranford, North and South, The Oregon Trail, The Secret of Moonacre |
| 1841 | Edward the Seventh |
| 1840 | Torrents of Spring, Under the Greenwood Tree |
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| 1838 | Firelight, Nicholas Nickleby |
| 1837 | The Young Victoria, Victoria & Albert |
| 1836 | Impromptu, Tilly Trotter |
| 1835 | Pride and Prejudice, True Women |
| 1834 | The Black Velvet Gown |
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| 1830 | Middlemarch |
| 1829 | Jane Eyre |
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| 1827 | Immortal Beloved, Madame Bovary, The Pickwick Papers, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
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| 1825 | The Deceivers |
| 1824 | Copying Beethoven |
| 1823 | Onegin |
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| 1821 | Duel of Hearts, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Mask of Zorro |
| 1820 | Jamaica Inn |
| 1819 | Hawaii, Jamaica Inn |
| 1818 | Bright Star |
| 1817 | Princess Caraboo |
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| 1815 | Emma, The Count of Monte Cristo, Wuthering Heights |
| 1814 | Persuasion |
| 1813 | Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier, St. Ives |
| 1812 | Great Expectations |
| 1811 | Pride and Prejudice, The Brothers Grimm |
| 1810 | A Hazard of Hearts, Davy Crockett and the River Pirates |
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| 1806 | Bligh, Mansfield Park |
| 1805 | Little Dorrit, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Vanity Fair, War and Peace |
| 1804 | Eroica |
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| 1802 | Miss Austen Regrets, Smuggler, Vanity Fair |
| 1801 | Jack of All Trades |
| 1800 | The Duellists |
| 1799 | Adam Bede, Sleepy Hollow |
| 1798 | Against the Wind, Northanger Abbey |
| 1797 | Billy Budd, Pride & Prejudice, Pride and Prejudice |
| 1796 | Les Miserables |
| 1795 | Beau Brummell: This Charming Man, Becoming Jane, Napoléon, Napoleon and Love, Sense and Sensibility |
| 1794 | Reign of Terror |
| 1793 | Hornblower: The Even Chance, Quills |
| 1792 | Goya's Ghosts, The Scarlet Pimpernel |
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| 1784 | Jefferson in Paris |
| 1783 | Poldark |
| 1782 | Amazing Grace, Dangerous Liaisons, Valmont |
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| 1774 | Felicity: An American Girl Adventure, The Duchess |
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| 1770 | John Adams |
| 1769 | Marie Antoinette |
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| 1753 | Casanova |
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