Writer Broadcaster and Newsnight arts correspondent Stephen Smith finds out what it took to get ahead at the court of Richard II.
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for contro...
His opponents accused him of being homosexual. The male favorites he gathered around him during his ...
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a definin...
Clarissa Dickson Wright tracks down Britain's oldest known cookbook, The Forme of Cury. This 700-yea...
Melvyn Bragg explores the dramatic story of William Tyndale and his mission to translate the Bible i...
Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embitter...
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of...
Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir,...
Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose...
In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotia...
A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3...
The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russ...
Was the legendary playwright William Shakespeare really the author of his acclaimed plays? Or was he...
Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning monarch in the history of Great Britain and the Commonwea...
A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill durin...
Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when sh...
Writers and historians including Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory revisit the last days of Anne Bo...
Historian Lucy Worsley restages the 1840 wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Aided by a tea...
Professor Saul David examines Prince Albert's role in shaping British culture, governmental policy a...
Sir Walter Raleigh overcomes court intrigue to win favor with the Queen in order to get financing fo...