Historian Dan Snow charts the defining role the Royal Navy played in Britain's struggle for modernity - a grand tale of the twists and turns which thrust the people of the British Isles into an indelible relationship with the sea and ships.

Dr Clare Jackson tells the story of The Stuarts in Exile and sheds new light on the political, milit...

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

Presented by Dr Clare Jackson of Cambridge University, this new three-part series argues that the St...

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

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

Historian Lucy Worsley presents a series marking the 200th anniversary of one of the most explosive ...

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

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

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

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...

In this 3-part documentary series, Lucy Worsley travels across Britain and Europe visiting the locat...

In an ambitious and groundbreaking approach to drama and history featuring dramatic reconstruction, ...

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

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

Aubrey Manning sets out on a journey to study the changing face of Britain's countryside

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

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

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

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