2: The Big Bang | Sword, Musket & Machine Gun: Britain’s Armed History

2: The Big Bang | Sword, Musket & Machine Gun: Britain’s Armed History

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Four | 2017 | 59'01''

Sam Willis on the history of weapons that have shaped Britain. He charts the impact of gunp...

4: Cromwell | Great Britons (2002)

4: Cromwell | Great Britons (2002)

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2002 | 58'11''

Monarchist and military historian Richard Holmes proposes Oliver Cromwell, the reluctant republican and revolutionary who helped establish...

S2E2: Revolutions | A History of Britain by Simon Schama

S2E2: Revolutions | A History of Britain by Simon Schama

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2001 | 58'38''

Featuring the revolutionary period in Britain after the execution of Charles I, from Cromwell's iron rule to Charles...

7: Culloden: The Jacobites’ Last Stand | Battlefield Britain

7: Culloden: The Jacobites’ Last Stand | Battlefield Britain

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2004 | 58'17''

Dan and Peter Snow use computer animation and dramatised testimony to relive defeat of Bonnie Prince Charl...

6: The Battle of the Boyne | Battlefield Britain

6: The Battle of the Boyne | Battlefield Britain

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2004 | 59'02''

Peter and Dan Snow explore in depth the battles that shaped the nation. The story of the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, when t...

3: The Cromwell: New Model Englishman | Plague, Fire, War and Treason

3: The Cromwell: New Model Englishman | Plague, Fire, War and Treason

Conflict and Warfare | Channel 4 | 2001 | 1'16'31''

How did this non-descript East Anglian gentleman emerge from the Fens to prove himself a military geniu...

Battle of Naseby | War Walks

Battle of Naseby | War Walks

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1997 | 29'17''

Richard Holmes visits Britain's historical sites. He travels to Naseby, where, in 1645, King Charles I lost the decisive battle of the English C...
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