Trixie and Daddy Olly go on a journey of discovery to find out what life was like for a ship's boy nearly 500 years ago. Trixie and Olly dress u...
The past is explored through artefacts and reconstructions. An explanation of why poppies are used as a remembrance symbol for peopl...
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...
London, 1665: during the long, hot summer, tens of thousands died of a dreadful disease. The Barnwell family are one of many to suffer.
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...
Chop, chop, it's the Horrible Histories' Terrible Tudors Special, with everything you need to know about history's most f...
The song, titled ''Matilda(s) & Stephen ... & Henry,'' is a parody of ABBA and features characters from the Norman...
An introduction to the life and times of Nelson Mandela. Schools programme for seven- to 11-year-olds.
An introduction to the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi. Schools programme for seven- to 11-year-olds.
The history of black people in Britain, from the abolition of the slave trade to the end of World War II. Education for seven- to 11-ye...
An introduction to the history of black people in Britain, from the Romans to the slave trade. Schools programme for seven- to 11-year-...
Nubia, Lupus, Flavia and Jonathan have to find the evidence that will clear a slave wrongly accused of terrible cri...
The children take a carruca into the hills outside Ostia, in pursuit of the man Flavia thinks has murdered her fath...
Lupus narrowly escapes kidnap by slave traders, but his friend Porcius and other Ostian children are snatched.
Flavia has a challenge on her hands when her father brings home a mysterious woman that he is thinking of marrying.
An ship washes up in Ostia, Flavia's father brings home a mysterious woman, and everything is turned upside down ...
Nubia thinks she may have glimpsed her missing brother, the children go to the arena and discover a mystery that en...
A ship docks at Ostia carrying a team of gladiators and Nubia thinks she may have glimpsed her missing brother amon...
The secret of who invited Doctor Mordecai to Rome is revealed. A fast-acting poison threatens the life of a loved one,...
Emperor Titus has a premonition, 'when a Prometheus opens Pandora's Box, Rome will be devastated'. Powerless, he watch...
The lure of a quick fortune has attracted others and the repulsive Venalicius makes an unwelcome return. However, t...
Captain Marcus Flavius Geminus returns from sea, having lost his ship and his precious cargo. With the family hound...
Jonathan is utterly alone, plagued by dreams of a cyclops and confused by speculation that his mother was not killed in...
Jonathan's birthday is marred by the arrival of uncle Simian. After upsetting his friends, Jonathan is tricked into goi...
Flavia and friends find themselves too close to a kidnapping plot. The children must pull together or face life in slavery.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius has left a trail of destruction. In the chaos of the refugee camp, Flavia is shocked to dis...
Flavia and her friends convince Admiral Pliny of the danger of Mount Vesuvius, but can he and his fleet can do anythi...
Flavia and her friends convince Admiral Pliny of the danger of Mount Vesuvius, but can he and his fleet do anything a...
Protests about inequality or environmental damage are common today, but how have people protested in the past? Emmeline ...
We've got a special bulletin for you today to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. We find out what the Holocaust was and...
The whole house gathers to hear a special radio announcement from the prime minister: the war in Europe is finally over.
Local farmer Mr Ward brings a delivery of three little pigs. They might be cute but they're for fattening up to eat.
The evacuees prepare Pradoe Hall for a potential enemy invasion as Colonel Fanthorpe arrives from the Home Guard.
A new girl arrives whose workshy ways certainly do not go unnoticed by the other evacuees.
The evacuees struggle with their manners. Pheasant shooting season arrives, one of the most important social events of the year.
The evacuees discover just how scary life in wartime Britain was as they swap chores for building air raid shelters.
Sunday is not the day of rest for the modern-day evacuees. Miss Young is determined to get them fit, which means an early start for a 1940...
On day three at Pradoe Hall, the boys discover how unfair life in the 1940s can be when the girls receive a special invite to afternoon te...
With mystery surrounding the girls when no-one admits to using the hot water during the night, Mrs Dobson goes on the warpath in search fo...
Twelve modern boys and girls experience life as 1940s evacuees at one of the finest country houses in the land. The evacuees face the challenge of liv...
Six young people trace their family histories to find out what life was like in post-war Britain, discovering how society has changed.
The past explored through artefacts and dramatic reconstructions. In this programme, who was Guy Fawkes, and how and why did he plo...
Alexander, a Jacobite soldier, meets a Canadian tourist shopping for high-end tartans.
Jean, a young girl from a Jacobite clan, goes to a 1990s fish market to see how butchery techniques had changed.
Seventy years since the Windrush's UK arrival, two kids head to the Caribbean to discover why their grandparents left...
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