Reformation

Elizabeth I's Secret Agents

A look at the world's first secret service. When the pope declares Queen Elizabeth I a heretic, spymaster William Cecil must stop the Catholic as...

Episode 2 | Henry VIII: Patron or Plunderer?

Jonathan Foyle looks for clues in Henry VIII's art to glimpse what was going on inside the king's head as he faced his darkest d...

Episode 3 | Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries

Dr Janina Ramirez discovers how the immensely rich and powerful monasteries that had dominated British so...

Henry VIII's Enforcer: The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell

Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch argues that rather than being a thug, Thomas Cromwell was a principled and pioneeri...

Part 2 | Reformation

1521, and the Catholic church has excommunicated Luther and condemned him as a heretic, but the Reformation can no longer be stopped.

S1E1: The Reformation | Royal History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Lucy Worsley discovers how the history of the English Reformation has been manipulated and mythologise...

S1E3: Reformation | The Battle for Britain's Soul

Rev Peter Owen-Jones discusses the chaotic 30 years that followed Henry VIII's purely political decision to break with the ...

S1E6: Burning Convictions | A History of Britain by Simon Schama

Simon Schama tells the story of the Reformation, from Henry VIII's love for Anne Boleyn to Bloody Mary's uns...

5: Court and Kirk | In Search of Scotland

Fiona Watson examines how the emergence of Protestantism changed Scottish society and opened new political divides.

England's Reformation: Three Books That Changed a Nation

Janina Ramirez tells the story of three books that defined the Reformation in England - Tyndale's New Testament, Cra...