In this unique take on British history, Professor Alice Roberts explores Britain's rich and varied past through the stories of individual towns and cities. In each programme Alice studies one key period in history by delving into the secrets of a historic town that encapsulates the era, providing an accurate impression of what life was really like at key moments in our turbulent past. At the climax of each programme, cutting-edge CGI reveals the entire historic town in all its former glory.
Investigating the most notorious murders ever to take place on the British railways. The cases start...
Thirties in Colour: Countdown to War takes black-and-white films from the era and colourises the foo...
Lucy Worsley, chief curator of the historic royal palaces, takes us through 800 years of domestic hi...
Professor Alice Roberts and Dr Yasmin Khan dig deeper into he fortunes of rich and poor in Georgian ...
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 ...
The comedian explores the British isles in her vintage camper van, Helen, taking in some dramatic sc...
Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investiga...
History series telling the glorious and gory story of the city's rise to power.
Michael Wood argues that the most important and influential British kings were a father, son and gra...
Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain is a 2009 BBC documentary television series presented by ...
This four-part series tells the stories of the landscapes, towns and cities which inspired four of t...
Taking a 'bottom-up' view of history by exploring everyday lives of the nations ordinary people.
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.
Tori Herridge and a team of scientists piece together life stories behind unearthed bones
Series looking at the British genius for woodwork over the centuries.
In this blend of historical drama and original source material, the story of this decisive year is r...