Military historian Corelli Barnett presents a program on John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, covering his military career and pers...
Documentary in which Paul Murton investigates the disappearance from history of Henry Fredrick Stuart, the forgotten Scottish prince and maybe the...
Lucy Worsley explores how the health of monarchs has shaped the nation. She looks at th...
Lucy explores how British history is a concoction of fibs. She debunks the 'Glorious Revo...
Lucy Worsley explores how Queen Anne's legacy has been marred by historical fibs.
The theft of the Crown Jewels on May 9, 1671.
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...
Queen Anne took the throne in 1702. As the last Stuart monarch and the first queen of Great Britain, she united Scotland and En...
Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and performer Sue Perkins try the food of Restoration Britain in the 1660s, a time of fire and plague.
Richard Holmes visits the site of the Battle of the Boyne, the defeat of James II by William III in 1690, and shows how the battle could have been over bef...
The birth of James II's son triggered a Protestant coup from William of Orange.
A discussion about how the Glorious Revolution had a number of unexpected consequences
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