Writer Broadcaster and Newsnight arts correspondent Stephen Smith finds out what it took to get ahead at the court of Richard II.

A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a definin...

In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for contro...

1402. Queen Margrete I has gathered the Nordic kingdoms in a union, ruled through her adopted son, E...

Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir,...

In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the co...

His opponents accused him of being homosexual. The male favorites he gathered around him during his ...

To mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Janina Ramirez tells the story of three books that...

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...

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

Mary Berry visits Harewood House in Yorkshire as it prepares for Christmas on a grand scale, and dem...

During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by t...

England, 11th century. William the Conqueror (ca. 1027-1087) wins the Battle of Hastings (1066), cha...

The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russ...

Sir Walter Raleigh overcomes court intrigue to win favor with the Queen in order to get financing fo...

In County Durham, England, 1984, a talented young dancer, Billy Elliot, stumbles out of the boxing r...

The life of England’s George VI, who was forced to become King following the abdication of his broth...

The life of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in ...

The painful story of Ireland and the Irish people, who struggled for centuries to free themselves fr...

The Spanish Dancer is the story of Maritana, a Romani girl who dances in courtyards and even tells p...