Empire, Slavery and Race

2: Why You Marry? | Rainbow City

Second episode of a groundbreaking BBC drama series from 1967 about the experience of the West Indian community in Birmingham, featuring Err...

3: A Better Fortune | Rainbow City

Third episode of a groundbreaking BBC drama series from 1967 about the experience of the West Indian community in Birmingham, featuring Er...

1: What Sort of Boy? | Rainbow City

First episode of a groundbreaking BBC drama series from 1967 about the experience of the West Indian community in Birmingham, featuring E...

3: 1965-2011 | George Alagiah: Mixed Britannia

George Alagiah tells the story of couples facing violence on the streets during the 70s, how adoption became a battleground an...

2: 1940-1965 | George Alagiah: Mixed Britannia

George Alagiah tells the story of the GI babies labelled war casualties, the boom in mixed-race couples following mass migrati...

3: Pomp and Power | Lost World of the Raj

Set against the backdrop of British India from the 1920s to Independence in 1947, this third and last programme in the series tells...

2: Sex and Sensibility | Lost World of the Raj

Raj society was based on a formal order of precedence, but behind the scenes there was a great deal of flirtation, fun, affair...

1: Home from Home | Lost World of the Raj

The first episode recreates the era of the 1930s, when British expatriates attempted to create an idyllic version of English life i...

6: Freedom | Michael Wood: The Story of India

Michael Wood examines the British Raj and traces the events that led to the Partition of India in 1947.

6: Always on Sunday | Rainbow City

Sixth episode of a groundbreaking BBC drama series from 1967 about the experience of the West Indian community in Birmingham, featuring Er...

Postwar: E10: India and Empire | Politically

The question of self-government for India would have to be confronted when war was over.

7: Soldiers of Empire | Not Forgotten

In this special edition of Not Forgotten, Ian Hislop uncovers the overlooked stories of soldiers from across the British Empire who fou...

5: Shot at Dawn | Not Forgotten

In this special edition of Not Forgotten, Ian Hislop uncovers the powerful stories of First World War soldiers from across the British Empire...

1: The Viceory of India | A Passage to Britain

Dr Yasmin Khan tracks down passengers who travelled from Mumbai to Britain in the 1930s on the luxurious P&O liner The Viceroy...

Episode 4 | Rebel Heart

It's 1922 and Ernie and Ita are together at last, while Ireland is poised to win her independence.

Episode 3 | Rebel Heart

Ernie is sent to the west of Ireland by Michael Collins to rally support but learns that Kelly and O'Toole are awaiting execution.

Episode 1 | Rebel Heart

Drama about an idealistic young man's coming of age during the birth of the Irish nation.

Episode 2 | The Road to Partition

The second episode explores how political tensions and outbreaks of sectarian violence threatened to destabilise the new Northern Irish state.

Episode 1 | The Road to Partition

Documentary exploring the political brinkmanship and bitter communal violence that led to the partition of Ireland.

3: Lady Constance Lytton | Shoulder to Shoulder

1908: Constance Lytton: daughter of the Viceroy of India, she came from one of the leading families in the land. Almost any d...

Episode 2 | My Family, Partition and Me: India 1947

Anita Rani and her mother Lucky become the first members of their family to return to what is now Pakistan since the Part...

Episode 1 | My Family, Partition and Me: India 1947

Anita Rani marks the 70th anniversary of the Partition of India by exploring its impact on four British families, includi...

2: Pirates | Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and Rogues

Sam Willis explores the golden age of piracy during the early 18th century and charts the devastating impact p...

3: The Jewel in the Crown | British History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Lucy explores how British history is a concoction of fibs. She debunks the fibs that surround th...

10: India: The Brightest Jewel | Twentieth Century History

Programme covers events in India from the 1930s to Independence and Partition in 1947.

The end of the British Slave Trade | Angellica: Time Traveller

In the final part of this journey Angellica Bell meets one of the descendants of William Wilberforce who helpe...

Saint Lucia | Angellica: Time Traveller

Angellica Bell explains what happened to the slaves once they arrived in the Caribbean.

Slave Ships | Angellica: Time Traveller

A group of school children crowd onto a bus to try and get a sense of how slaves felt on the crowded ships taking them to new lands.

Senegal | Angellica: Time Traveller

Angellica Bell describes how people were captured and treated in Senegal as they entered into a life of salvery.

Bristol's role in the slave trade | Angellica: Time Traveller

Angellica Bell introduces the slave trade and the importance of Bristol in its history.

Neil Kenlock - Photographing the black British experience | Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga talks to Neil Kenlock about his photographs of the experienc...

The Windrush Generation | Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga discusses the Windrush Generation.

Charles Wootton | Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga discusses racial violence in Liverpool.

Bechuanaland Chiefs | Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga investigates the Bechuanaland Chiefs.

Morant Bay Rebellion | Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga discusses the legacy of the slave trade in Jamaica in the decades after abolition.

Lancashire cotton famine | Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga explains how the American civil war caused a cotton famine in Lancashire.

Mississippi cotton | Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga discusses the cotton industry in Mississippi and how it fuelled Britain's industrial revolution.

Sara Forbes Bonetta | Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga discusses the remarkable life of Sara Forbes Bonetta.

Frederick Douglass | Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga discusses the life and work of Frederick Douglas.

West Africa Squadron | Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga discusses the West Africa Squadron, which attempted to intercept slave ships and free the African...

Freetown | Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga investigates the passenger list to Freetown in Africa.

Bill Richmond | Black and British: A Forgotten History

Davis Olusoga investigates the Bill Richmond black boxer who took Georgian Britain by storm.

Revolution of African-American slaves | Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga investigates American Independence and the revolution of the African slaves.

Granville Sharp | Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga discusses Granville Sharpe and Jonathan Strong's roles in the abolition of slavery.

Slave Codes | Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga discusses the slave codes that stripped black people of all their rights.