Historian Lucy Worsley restages the 1840 wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Aided by a team of experts, Worsley recreates the most important elements of the ceremony and the celebrations, scouring history books, archives, newspapers and Queen Victoria's diaries for the details. She reveals how every moment was brilliantly stage-managed for maximum effect. Woven into the recreation of the wedding day is the story of Victoria and Albert's courtship and engagement, and its political importance.
Clarissa Dickson Wright tracks down Britain's oldest known cookbook, The Forme of Cury. This 700-yea...
Writers and historians including Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory revisit the last days of Anne Bo...
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for contro...
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
This documentary from BT Sport Films celebrates the life of two-time world champion biker Barry Shee...
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her ma...
When Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert dies, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr. John ...
In this hour-long documentary, Oxford academic Janina Ramirez tours the country in search of Anglo-S...
Kings of War merges Henry V, Henry VI and Richard III into one explosive performance about leadershi...
Caroline Sturdy Colls, a world leader in the forensic investigation of Nazi crime scenes, is chasing...
Documentary telling the inside story of the plans by Louis Mountbatten to maneuver his nephew and he...
The beautiful gay erotic superstar Johan Paulik is enthusiastically celebrated in this jam-packed co...
Norwegian researcher Petter Amundsen claims to have deciphered a secret code hidden in legendary pla...
David Olusoga opens secret government files to show how the Windrush scandal and the ‘hostile enviro...
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by t...
This is the story of Queen Victoria as never heard before; a psychological insight of the woman told...
A countdown of the top 40 "Blackadder" moments chosen by cast and crew members, celebrity fans and 1...
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of...