Michael Portillo celebrates the modern railway’s 200th birthday, revealing the journey that changed the world.

Intercity 125 – Britain's own original high-speed train – rules the rails today, but this national i...

Jonathan Meades gives a personal perspective of British history.

Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain is a 2009 BBC documentary television series presented by ...

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

Part documentary, part historical drama, this series follows the fortunes of the different members o...

Historian Lucy Worsley presents a series marking the 200th anniversary of one of the most explosive ...
Dominic Sandbrook takes a fresh look at a dynamic decade. 1980s Britain changed in everything from p...

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

Historian Dan Snow charts the defining role the Royal Navy played in Britain's struggle for modernit...

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

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

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...

The Normans is a British television documentary series first aired on BBC Two in 2010. Over three ep...

Lucy Worsley, chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces, explores how the physical and mental health o...

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

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

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

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

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