In this 3-part documentary series, Lucy Worsley travels across Britain and Europe visiting the locations where royal history was made. In palaces and castles and on battlefields she investigates how royal history is a mixture of facts, exaggeration, manipulation and mythology.

This is the “embedded” French Revolution that we want to share: an exceptional, immersive experience...

Jonathan Meades gives a personal perspective of British history.

Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investiga...

In this four-part documentary series, leading Hollywood actors undertake a fascinating journey into ...

This is the true tale of the biggest scandal ever to engulf the British Royal Family – a forbidden ...

Seven Ages of Britain is a BBC television documentary series which is written and presented by David...

Time Team is a British television series which has been aired on British Channel 4 from 1994. Create...

This series travels the length and breadth of Britain to find out how the Victorians built Britain. ...

Lucy Worsley, chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces, explores how the physical and mental health o...
Dominic Sandbrook takes a fresh look at a dynamic decade. 1980s Britain changed in everything from p...

Series tracing the events of 1940, when Britain faced alone the threat of invasion and defeat by Hit...

Historian Dan Jones explores the millennium of history behind six of Great Britain's most famous cas...

Investigating the most notorious murders ever to take place on the British railways. The cases start...

In this blend of historical drama and original source material, the story of this decisive year is r...

The Normans is a British television documentary series first aired on BBC Two in 2010. Over three ep...
This four-part series tells the stories of the landscapes, towns and cities which inspired four of t...

An enthralling series exploring how the BBC fought not only Hitler but also the British government t...

Three-part documentary about the sinking of the Spanish Armada, featuring dramatic reconstructions a...

Groundbreaking series in which Michael Wood tells the story of one place throughout the whole of Eng...

Documentary series that tells the stories of the extraordinary last survivors of the generation who ...