West Yorkshire Lunatic Pauper Asylum | How We Built Britain

5: Bloody Beginnings | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

Michael Mosley looks at how surgery dragged itself kicking and screaming out of the dark ages, transforming itsel...

5: Medicine and Surgery | History File

Programme concentrates on looking at medicine and surgery, and looks at the rise of surgery and inventions such as X-rays, the stethos...

The Great Plague

The Great Plague of 1665 killed 100,000 Londoners - one in three of the people living in the city. While kept diaries have provided terrifying testaments to...

2: Pus | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

Dr Michael Mosley explores our earliest attempts to tackle infection and how scientists, chemists and doctors ...

3: Medicine and Government | History File

Using historical evidence to recreate 19th century life this programme looks at the relationship between government and medicine an...

4: Medicine and Long Term Change | History File

Paul Viragh presents programme on medicine and long-term change - Harvey's theory of the circulation of the blood is usually ...

2: Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians | Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

Lucy Worsley explores how the health of monarchs has shaped the nation. She looks at th...

1: Black Death | World's Worst Century

Was the 14th century the worst time in history to be alive? The population of Britain was ravaged by a plague that drove mankind to th...

1: Medicine, Religion and Natural Causes | History File

This programme looks at ancient Egypt, Hippocrates, Christianity and Islam.

5: Medicine, Technology and The Individual | History File

The principal of the germ theory of disease is credited to Louis Pasteur. But why was it taken up and acted on, so ...

James Simpson discovers chloroform | Medical Mavericks

Dr Michael Mosley investigates the discovery of chloroform.

Jenner's Marvellous Medicine | A History of the World

Professor Mark Horton tells the epic story of the world's greatest medical discovery. Edward Jenner's vaccination for s...

S1E5: King Death | A History of Britain by Simon Schama

Simon Schama continues his look at British history with the Black Death, the horror of medieval Britain. Those it did...

The dangers of chloroform | Medical Mavericks

Dr Michael Mosley discusses the early deaths that exposed the dangers of chloroform.

The NHS: A Difficult Beginning

The story of the birth of the NHS, revealing how close its opponents came to defeating it and why the some of the fiercest opposition came fro...

4: Fixing Faces | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

Series about the history of surgery continues with a look at the development of plastic surgery, which started over 40...

4: Medicine and War | History File

This prog looks at the relationship between medicine and war. Does war help or hinder medicine? Surviving records from WWI help us to unde...

Discovery of penicillin | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicine

Fleming initially discovered the antibacterial properties of mould that would lead to the disc...

Florence Nightingale's rose diagram | The Beauty of Diagrams

Florence Nightingale's revolutionary and controversial rose diagram showed that hospitals, as they were, could k...

Medieval treatment and beliefs on the cause of the Black Death | A History of Britain by Simon Schama

Simon Schama discusses the Medieval beliefs about what caused the Black...