S2E2 | Hidden Wales with Will Millard

2: Trade and Industry | Wales and the History of the World

Wales powered the world by exporting coal, our lager quenched the thirst of the Empire and our tinplate kept food ...

S1E1 | Hidden Wales with Will Millard

Will Millard begins his tour in the north, uncovering long-unseen historical gems such as the biggest abandoned slate mine in the world.

S2E3 | Hidden Wales with Will Millard

Will Millard goes in search of the lost and hidden locations from Wales's coal history and explores the abandoned buildings of some for...

S2E4 | Hidden Wales with Will Millard

Will Millard goes in search of the lost and hidden locations from Wales's coal history and explores the abandoned buildings of some for...

S2E5 | Hidden Wales with Will Millard

Will Millard discovers the hidden history of the Welsh slate industry by exploring forgotten and usually inaccessible locations that sh...

S2E5: Wales | Local Heroes

Adam Hart-Davis recalls heroes of science and invention in Wales. Amongst others, he reveals the inventions of Harry Grindell Matthews and Richard...

The Full Story: Episode 1 | Snowdonia 1890

Two families experience life on the hillsides of 19th-century Snowdonia. The Braddock and Jones families say goodbye to the 21st c...

The Full Story: Episode 2 | Snowdonia 1890

It's almost a week since the Jones and Braddock families went back in time to experience everyday life as smallholders in 1890 Sno...

The Full Story: Episode 3 | Snowdonia 1890

During the Jones and Braddock families' second week of life as 1890 Snowdonia smallholders, making ends meet is proving a struggle.

The Full Story: Episode 4 | Snowdonia 1890

The first day of spring on the Jones and Braddock families' 1890 smallholding sees tempers fray as 21st-century expectations clash...

The Full Story: Episode 5 | Snowdonia 1890

The final week for the Jones and Braddock families on their 1890 smallholding. As everyone prepares to return to their normal 21st...

1: A Cup of Tea | The Boat That Guy Built

Guy Martin renovates a neglected narrowboat with inventions from the Industrial Revolution. He begins by building an 18th-century b...

1: Britain's Moral Makeover | Ian Hislop's Age of the Do-Gooders

Ian Hislop salutes the unsung heroes of Victorian Britain who improved cities, housing and working condition...

1: Emergence | Ian Hislop's Stiff Upper Lip - An Emotional History of Britain

Ian Hislop investigates Britain's emotional history. He charts how and why the stiff upper lip ...

1: Migration and Emigration | History File

Compilation of secondary schools programme on British History 1750-1900. Looks at how industrialisation changed the day-to-day liv...

1: Painting the Town | The Victorians

Jeremy Paxman begins his exploration into Victorian Britain by investigating the most dramatic event of the age - the explosion of grea...

1: The Great Ship | Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

Following the story of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's struggle to build the world's largest ship, The Great Eastern.

1: The Time Machine | 1900s House

We go behind-the scenes to find out how an ordinary terraced house in the shadow of the Millennium Dome was transformed into a time machine...

1: The Viceory of India | A Passage to Britain

Dr Yasmin Khan tracks down passengers who travelled from Mumbai to Britain in the 1930s on the luxurious P&O liner The Viceroy...

1: Why Britain? | Empire: How Britain Made The Modern World

In this programme we learn about the origins of the British empire in the 17th century and how its foundations we...