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Charles Dickens - Miserable (Song) | Horrible Histories
Charles Dickens on life, novels and inspiration from his experiences in the Victorian Era.
Marcus Licinius Crassus - Minted (Song) | Horrible Histories
No rich man could ever surpass roman 'geezer' Marcus Licinius Crassus, he was minted!
Rosa Parks - I Sat on a Bus (Song) | Horrible Histories
Rosa Parks shares about how she helped spark the Civil Rights Movement, all by sitting on a bus!
Thomas Edison invents ''hello'' | Horrible Histories
Edison stumbles upon an important development in the way people answer the telephone.
Vikings & Garfunkel (Song) | Horrible Histories
Think the vicious Vikings were purely plunderers and pillagers? Think again!
Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
In a one-off precursor to his Historyonic's series, Nick Knowles gets a behind-the-scenes look at why a Yorkshire-born zealot called Guy Fa...
The 1860s | The Victorian Slum
A group of 21st-century people move into a recreated Victorian slum. In this episode, the slum dwellers move into the 1860s, when London was t...
Time Treasures - Poppy Day | Watch
The past is explored through artefacts and reconstructions. An explanation of why poppies are used as a remembrance symbol for people who ...
Harrying of the North | The Normans
Offshoots of Anglo-Saxons, particularly in Northern England, would target roaming Normans, killing them to prevent any changes to their l...
Finding My Family - Windrush | Newsround Specials
Seventy years since the Windrush's UK arrival, two kids head to the Caribbean to discover why their grandparents left for a...
William's castles | The Normans
William's coronation was met with some angst, but he persevered and proceeded to divide up land to Norman noblemen and build castles.
The Children of the Holocaust
Powerful animated films, in which elderly Jewish Holocaust survivors tell their stories of Nazi persecution in their childhood and how they esc...
What Caused the Spanish Armada? | Armada: 12 Days to Save England
Dan Snow discusses the foundations of what caused the Spanish Armada.
05: The Spanish Armada | Landmarks
In October 1588, a lone Spanish ship was wrecked off south Devon. In today's programme children from three Devon schools use their own map...
Benin Bronzes | Civilisations
David Olusoga visits the Benin Bronzes at the British Museum.
Horrible Histories: The Movie (2019)
When Roman lad Atti offends edgy Emperor Nero, he is drafted to fight in far-flung Britain, where local Celt lass Orla itches to join Bo...
Fawkes' 13 | Horrible Histories
This Bonfire Night, watch as Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators embark on a devilish plot to blow up Parliament.
The 1066 invasion | The Normans
Robert Bartlett gives a step-by-step guide to the infamous Battle of Hastings where William took the throne from King Harold and so ended th...
Charles Wootton | Black and British: A Forgotten History
David Olusoga discusses racial violence in Liverpool.
Fire! | The History Trail
London, 2 September 1666 - the start of a terrible fire recorded in detail by the diarist Samuel Pepys. Within four days the city was in smoking ru...
Fireships | Armada: 12 Days to Save England
Dan Snow explores the English use of fireships against the Spanish Armada.
Hereward the Wake | The Normans
Hereward the Wake oversaw the next resistance to King William, and got help from the Danish to attack England from the East.
Mary, Queen of Scots plot with Anthony Babbington | A History of Britain by Simon Schama
Simon Schama discusses the trap that Francis Walsingham created to catch Mary.
Plague! | The History Trail
London, 1665: during the long, hot summer, tens of thousands died of a dreadful disease. The Barnwell family are one of many to suffer.
The beginnings of the British slave trade | Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners
David Olusoga investigates the beginnings of the British slave trade in Barbados.
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