On the edge of London stands Hampton Court, one of Britain's biggest palaces and most popular tourist spots, attracting almost a million visitors every year. Spanning 750 acres of grounds, it boasts 1,300 rooms and 23 courtyards...along with a host of secrets and historic stories. This two-part special provides an exclusive and intimate look at life inside the court today for the people keeping Henry VIII's world alive in the modern age, and also explores what life was like in the palace where the private world of the Tudors began.
Tori Herridge and a team of scientists piece together life stories behind unearthed bones
This four-part series tells the stories of the landscapes, towns and cities which inspired four of t...
Lucy Worsley, chief curator of the historic royal palaces, takes us through 800 years of domestic hi...
Profiling two of the massive archaeological digs along the 150-mile route of HS2, the UK’s new high-...
Lucy Worsley explores how British history is a concoction of fibs and stories manipulated by whoever...
Historian Lucy Worsley debunks popular myths and royal as well as anti-royal propaganda about key ev...
This is the true tale of the biggest scandal ever to engulf the British Royal Family – a forbidden ...
In this unique take on British history, Professor Alice Roberts explores Britain's rich and varied p...
The Hundred Years’ war between England and France gave us the victories of Crecy and Agincourt, and ...
Jonathan Meades gives a personal perspective of British history.
The comedian explores the British isles in her vintage camper van, Helen, taking in some dramatic sc...
Taking a 'bottom-up' view of history by exploring everyday lives of the nations ordinary people.
Seven Ages of Britain is a BBC television documentary series which is written and presented by David...
Henry VIII is the most infamous monarch in English history. Famously he married six times over his 3...
Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain is a 2009 BBC documentary television series presented by ...
This two-part series profiles Princess Margaret, whose life and loves reflected the social and sexua...
Michael Wood argues that the most important and influential British kings were a father, son and gra...
Tony Robinson goes for a walk through some of Britain's beautiful and historic landscapes.
Series looking at the British genius for woodwork over the centuries.
Historian Dan Jones explores the millennium of history behind six of Great Britain's most famous cas...