S3E5: The Independence of India | Days That Shook the World

1: A Taste of Power | Empire

Jeremy Paxman begins by asking how such a small country got such a big head and came to rule a quarter of the world.

1: Betrayal | Suez: A Very British Crisis

Archive material, interviews, and dramatisations provide an insight into to the Suez crisis of 1956; the Egyptian uprising that bro...

1: Home from Home | Lost World of the Raj

The first episode recreates the era of the 1930s, when British expatriates attempted to create an idyllic version of English life i...

1: Martial Races | The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire

David Olusoga challenges our perceptions of the First World War with the stories of the millions of Indian, ...

1: The Atlantic Slave Trade | History File

The development of the triangular trade is described from its ancient origins, through the European involvement in the 16th and 17...

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...

10: India: The Brightest Jewel | Twentieth Century History

Programme covers events in India from the 1930s to Independence and Partition in 1947.

2: Foreign Legions | The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire

In part two, historian David Olusoga explains how the First World War spread far beyond the mud and trench...

2: Making Ourselves at Home | Empire

Jeremy Paxman continues by examining how traders, conquerors and settlers spread the British way of doing things.

2: Pirates | Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and Rogues

Sam Willis explores the golden age of piracy during the early 18th century and charts the devastating impact p...

2: Sex and Sensibility | Lost World of the Raj

Raj society was based on a formal order of precedence, but behind the scenes there was a great deal of flirtation, fun, affair...

2: White Plague | Empire: How Britain Made The Modern World

The concept of 'plantation' is explored in this programme, referring not to crops but the settlement of British p...

2. On trial | The Compass

Ken Saro Wiwa and Ledum Mittee come face to face with the power of the Nigerian state.

3: Lady Constance Lytton | Shoulder to Shoulder

1908: Constance Lytton: daughter of the Viceroy of India, she came from one of the leading families in the land. Almost any d...

3: Playing the Game | Empire

Jeremy Paxman continues by tracing the growth of a peculiarly British type of hero.

3: Pomp and Power | Lost World of the Raj

Set against the backdrop of British India from the 1920s to Independence in 1947, this third and last programme in the series tells...

3: The Jewel in the Crown | British History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Lucy explores how British history is a concoction of fibs. She debunks the fibs that surround th...

3: The Mission | Empire: How Britain Made The Modern World

Following the religious revival that started in the late 18th century, missionaries began working in Africa and In...

3: The Two Nations | Union with David Olusoga

The 19th-century union appears secure, but beneath the surface run deep divisions, leading to the emergence of a new working-cl...