You can read more about Empire's Children in the book accompanying the series: 'Empire's Children: Trace Your Family History Across the World' by Anton Gill.
For a chance to win one of ten copies of the book, enter our competition. You can also read our interview with Anton.
About Empire's ChildrenEmpire's Children was made by Wall to Wall, the same production company that pioneered the successful genealogy show 'Who Do You Think You Are?', and will air from 2 July to 6 August on Channel 4. In conjunction with the series, More4 will also broadcast 'The British Empire Strikes Back', a three part series exploring the celebrities' views of Britain today in light of their journeys into their families' imperial pasts.
The Empire's Children website was made by Illumina Digital, the BAFTA award winning multimedia company behind such cross-media projects as 'Stagework', 'Breaking the News' and 'Teachers' TV'. The site allows viewers to explore the end of the British Empire through personal stories and the histories of various Empire countries, as well as providing detailed research guides to enable viewers to trace and tell their own Empire stories.
Empire's Children TV Programme produced by Wall to Wall
For Channel 4:
Commissioning Editor: Adam Gee
Project Manager: Susan Millard
For Illumina Digital:
Executive Producer:Andrew Chitty
Creative Director:Davie McGirr
Project Manager:Paul McCormick
Producer:Rebekka Campbell
Assistant Producer:Samala Wagstaff
Technical Lead:Trent Williams
Developer:Tasha Zawawi
HTML:Chris Najman
Design Lead:Andres Rojas
Designers:Heidi Spets,Mandy Robinson and Michelle Lai
Flash developer:Steve Snasdell
Researchers:Helen Lightbody, Jasbir Saund, Anna Humphries, Sophie Busch and Cornelia Retief
Proofreader:Justin Bateman
Video directors:John Goodyer and Paul Kerrigan
Video editing:Ben Dickie
Video converting:Matt Jones and Matt Waddleton
Archive images, video and audio provided by Images of Empire, (an initiative of the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum)
Additional images from Getty Images
Research guides provided by STICKS
Country histories provided by Harriet Jones, Anna Heather and Rebekka Campbell
Logo and title sequence images provided by Keith Robinson
