3: Brave New World | Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England

'The plots against Elizabeth keep coming'' | Elizabeth I's Secret Agents

With the mounting assassination attempts on Queen Elizabeth partly inspired by Catholic Mary Queen o...

0: Learning Zone | Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

Lucy Worsley presents six films about the mental and physical health of our past monarchs, covering Henry V...

0: Learning Zone | Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

Compilation of short films specially made for schools Dr. Ian MORTIMER presents a unique travel guide to the...

1: Day One | Armada: 12 Days to Save England

Anita Dobson stars as Elizabeth I, and Dan Snow tells the story of how England came within a whisker of disaster in summer 1588.

1: Elizabeth I | Queens that Changed the World

Elizabeth I pacified a divided nation, and foiled multiple plots against her. English culture flourished under her reign, and ...

1: The Common People | Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

Dr. Ian Mortimer undertakes a present-tense journey through the world of Queen Elizabeth the First. This...

1: Tudors to Stuarts: From Gods to Men | Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

Lucy Worsley explores how the health of past monarchs has shaped the nation. She exam...

2: Hardwick Hall | Britain's Best Buildings

This edition visits Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire, one of the most mysterious country houses in Britain. Its great honey-coloured w...

2: The Battle for England | Armada: 12 Days to Save England

Dan Snow relives fierce sea battles and looks behind the scenes in the court of Elizabeth I as the Spanish fleet ...

2: The Heart of England: Living It Up | How We Built Britain

David Dimbleby goes on an architectural tour of Britain, exploring the great country houses of the reign of Eliz...

2: The Rich | Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

Dr Ian Mortimer navigates his way through the treacherous world of the Elizabethan upper classes, revealing how t...

3: Age of Power | Seven Ages of Britain

David Dimbleby tells the story of Britain through its art and treasure, from Henry VIII's accession in 1509 to the premiere of Shakes...

3: Defence of the Realm | Castles: Britain's Fortified History

Sam Willis looks at how castles survived into the Tudor era. But these strategic seats of power had to become ...

3: Endgame | Armada: 12 Days to Save England

Newly discovered documents reveal a remarkable web of misunderstandings that stopped the Spanish from invading.

3: Jane, Mary and Elizabeth | She-Wolves: England's Early Queens

Helen Castor explores the lives of the Tudor queens Jane, Mary and Elizabeth, and how each struggled with we...

4: Learning Zone | Armada: 12 Days to Save England

Aboard a yacht on the seas of the battle, sailor and historian Dan Snow describes the key characters, weapons and stories ...

4: Peasants' Revolt to Tudors | Michael Wood's Story of England

A portrait of one village through the whole of English history. Amazing finds in the school archive help trac...

4: The Battle Against the Spanish Armada | Battlefield Britain

Peter and Dan Snow take a look at the battles that shaped our nation. Drake's unlikely sea victory against the...

6: Mary, Queen of Scots | Historyonics

Nick Knowles asks whether Mary, Queen of Scots, one of history's most famous monarchs, was a manipulator or a martyr.

7: Elizabeth I | Great Britons (2002)

Michael Portillo champions Elizabeth I, arguing that she fought religious fanaticism, established Britain's tradition of tolerance, and...