In the final episode, Dr Sam Willis looks at the drive to develop ever more precise weapons o...
Historian Lucy Moore makes the case for Horatio Nelson, Britain's most successful naval leader, who died in 1805 while saving the country fr...
Historian David Howarth reviews the life of Admiral Nelson, concluding that Nelson was a legend among his sailors in his own lifetim...
Drama-documentary starring Tom Burke and Rob Brydon telling how Napoleon Bonaparte rose from being a penniless soldier to create an empire,...
Andrew Roberts charts the fall of Napoleon, a defining moment in global history. Grave military misjudgements led to his defeat at Waterloo and exile to...
From lowly Corsican Army officer to first consul of France, this episode charts the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte to leader of the French nation in the lat...
Lucy Worsley finds the fibs behind the facade of Georgian elegance and discovers how t...
The real story of the battle of Trafalgar and its flawed hero Nelson. How did the British win it? What did it achieve? Why has Nelson become a natio...
Weathering the anti-royalist storm breaking on the continent, Great Britain stands strong against the military might of Napoleon. ...
Wellington's victory against Napoleon in 1815 ended the most powerful European empire since the Romans. Professor Holmes visits the farms and fields whe...
Mary Seacole's life as a nurse in the Crimean War.
Nurse, statistician and social reformer - the Lady with the Lamp did a lot of amazing things!
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