Helen Castor presents an in depth and insightful series covering England's early Queens, from the High Middle Ages with Eleanor and get daughter-in-law Eleanor of Aquitane, through the Late Middle Ages with Isabella of France and Margaret of Anjou and finishing with Lady Jane Grey, Mary I and Elizabeth I.

My grandfather fought alongside Pancho Villa, became Master Mason, was an elected official who repre...

The Portuguese Revolution (1974-75) seen through the eyes of some of the most important photographer...

Inside the dramatic search for a cure to ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome)...

Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny piece of...

For over 1,000 years, chariots were indispensable weapons in ancient China. The art of chariot drivi...

Petar Peca Popović is one of the greatest, most famous, most authoritative and for sure, the best, c...

As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art hou...

The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...

The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Pr...

Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic pr...

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...

Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeatin...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with t...

King Louis XIV has without his knowledge a twin brother, Philippe, but when he is told, he immediate...

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...
"You who enter, leave all your hope behind." Själö was Finland's first mental hospital. The hospital...

Recreating festivities from Henry VIII's era, Lucy Worsley dresses, eats, drinks, sings and parties ...