Historian William Dalrymple travels to Hyderabad in India to explore the remarkable 18th-century love affair between a British diplomat and the Muslim princess he married. Tensions ran high when an Englishman fell for a Mughal ruler's daughter.

Between January 1st and 31 December 2017, 768 people died as a result of murder or manslaughter in B...

In this hour-long documentary, Oxford academic Janina Ramirez tours the country in search of Anglo-S...
The history of Westminster Abbey and a tour of the monuments within it; accompanied by choral music ...

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

Norwegian researcher Petter Amundsen claims to have deciphered a secret code hidden in legendary pla...

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

The epic story of how people around the world lived through the first year of the coronavirus pandem...

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

In the 19th century, China held the monopoly on tea, which was dear and fashionable in the West, and...

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

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

The beautiful gay erotic superstar Johan Paulik is enthusiastically celebrated in this jam-packed co...

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

A special celebrating the origins and legacy of Star Wars' legendary bounty hunter, Boba Fett.

Researchers discover that Aliens from another world assisted in the evolution of man and were the ge...

Kay Mander kept training and social issues to the fore in the 1940s with her innovative documentarie...

Melvyn Bragg explores the dramatic story of William Tyndale and his mission to translate the Bible i...

A documentary on the surviving syncretic pagan midwinter customs of the British Isles, focusing on n...

Adventurer and journalist Simon Reeve heads to Vietnam to uncover the stories behind the nation's mo...