A century on, historian Dr Zareer Masani reappraises the events and context of the Amritsar massacre in which hundreds of India...
Set against the backdrop of British India from the 1920s to Independence in 1947, this third and last programme in the series tells...
Raj society was based on a formal order of precedence, but behind the scenes there was a great deal of flirtation, fun, affair...
The first episode recreates the era of the 1930s, when British expatriates attempted to create an idyllic version of English life i...
Michael Wood examines the British Raj and traces the events that led to the Partition of India in 1947.
Tonight's programme follows historian Andrew Roberts across the Indian subcontinent as he argues that Britain should take pride in its imper...
Sathnam Sanghera goes on a very personal journey to unearth the roots that bind his country to its colonial past. Travelling across Britain ...
Sixth episode of a groundbreaking BBC drama series from 1967 about the experience of the West Indian community in Birmingham, featuring Er...
The question of self-government for India would have to be confronted when war was over.
In this special edition of Not Forgotten, Ian Hislop uncovers the overlooked stories of soldiers from across the British Empire who fou...
In this special edition of Not Forgotten, Ian Hislop uncovers the powerful stories of First World War soldiers from across the British Empire...
Journalist Anita Rani sets out to see if she can find out more about what happened to her grandfather during the Partition of I...
Director Gurinder Chadha learns about her father's life in Kenya and her grandmother's experiences during the partition of ...
Dr Yasmin Khan tracks down passengers who travelled from Mumbai to Britain in the 1930s on the luxurious P&O liner The Viceroy...
David Olusoga discusses the experiences of the Chinese labour corp in WW1.
David Olusoga investigates the WW1 experiences of French troops from Sub-Sah...
David Olusoga discusses the Battle of Neuve Chapelle.
David Olusoga discusses the Indian corp experiences of industrialised trench warfare.
David Olusoga discusses the experiences of the Indian soldiers arriving in Marseille at th...
Drama-documentary starring Clive Russell as Lachlan Macquarie, governor of the British penal colony that would eventually become Australia.
It's 1922 and Ernie and Ita are together at last, while Ireland is poised to win her independence.
Ernie is sent to the west of Ireland by Michael Collins to rally support but learns that Kelly and O'Toole are awaiting execution.
Drama about an idealistic young man's coming of age during the birth of the Irish nation.
The second episode explores how political tensions and outbreaks of sectarian violence threatened to destabilise the new Northern Irish state.
Documentary exploring the political brinkmanship and bitter communal violence that led to the partition of Ireland.
James Mossman reports on the relationship between Europeans and Africans in the federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
1908: Constance Lytton: daughter of the Viceroy of India, she came from one of the leading families in the land. Almost any d...
Documentary about the effects of Britain's withdrawal from India in 1947. 15 million were displaced and more than a million lose their...
Anita Rani and her mother Lucky become the first members of their family to return to what is now Pakistan since the Part...
Anita Rani marks the 70th anniversary of the Partition of India by exploring its impact on four British families, includi...
Sam Willis explores the golden age of piracy during the early 18th century and charts the devastating im...
Lucy explores how British history is a concoction of fibs. She debunks the fibs that surro...
Lenny Henry and Suzy Klein celebrate black classical composers and musicians across the centuries whose stories and music have l...
Programme covers events in India from the 1930s to Independence and Partition in 1947.
David Olusoga challenges our perceptions of the First World War with the stories of the millions of In...
In part two, historian David Olusoga explains how the First World War spread far beyond the mud and ...
A compilation of short films made specially for schools on the rise and fall of the East India Company, which acc...
Dan Snow traces the rise and fall of the East India Company, and reveals how the British government controlled the Ea...
Dan Snow travels through India in the footsteps of the company that revolutionised British lifestyles and laid the fo...
In the final part of his personal account of Britain's empire, Jeremy Paxman tells the story of how a desire for conquest became a mission to improve ...
Jeremy Paxman continues by tracing the growth of a peculiarly British type of hero.
Jeremy Paxman continues by examining how traders, conquerors and settlers spread the British way of doing things.
Jeremy Paxman begins by asking how such a small country got such a big head and came to rule a quarter of the world.
The story of the Independence of India.
In 1834 Britain abolished slavery, a defining and celebrated moment in our national history. What has been largely forgotten is that a...
Professor Alice Roberts and Dr Yasmin Khan dig deeper through the excavations at St James's burial ground on the hunt for the lost ex...
The development of the triangular trade is described from its ancient origins, through the European involvement in the 16th and 17...
How the invasion of Egypt caused an international outcry and the end of Eden's career.
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