The black death had devastating effects in centuries past, but what actually caused it and how many lives did it take? The world has not seen a disease outbreak like it before or since. This film tells the story of skeletons recently unearthed in a long-lost plague cemetery beneath the streets of London. Was it the Bubonic Plague, or as scientists now suspect, an Ebola-like virus?

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

The vivid and inspiring story of British film icon Michael Caine's personal journey through 1960s sw...

In this hour-long documentary, Oxford academic Janina Ramirez tours the country in search of Anglo-S...

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto...

St James's in London is renowned for being Britain's poshest high street. We meet the characters who...

Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of Fra...

Documentary to mark the WI's centenary. Lucy Worsley goes beyond the stereotypes of jam and Jerusale...

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

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...
They are young, all-American girls who enjoy horse riding, karate and Sherlock Holmes. But there's m...

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

Inspired by the original micropub craze in Kent, three entrepreneurial Londoners decide to open thei...

Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry ...

Young William Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, 'Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daugh...

May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Speci...

Today, few people's clothes attract as much attention as the royal family, but this is not a modern-...

Lucy Worsley gets into bed with our past monarchs to uncover the Tales from the Royal Bedchamber. Sh...

The history of arguably the most famous shop in the world, which has been based on Brompton Road in ...

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled...

Twiggy takes a comprehensive look at the life story of UK model and cultural icon Twiggy, real name ...