1: Nerves of Steel | The Courage to Fail

1: Nerves of Steel | The Courage to Fail

History | BBC Two | 1987 | 48'04''

1830 - a smoke-filled room, crowded with spectators. Their eyes are fixed on a man, restrained on a wooden table, with a leg ravaged...

Isaac Newton: The Last Magician

Isaac Newton: The Last Magician

History | BBC Two | 2013 | 59'29''

Isaac Newton - brilliant rational mathematician or master of the occult? This innovative biography reveals Newton as both a hermit and a tyra...

4: Florence Nightingale | Great Britons (1990)

4: Florence Nightingale | Great Britons (1990)

History | BBC Two | 1990 | 59'04''

Philippa Stewart, biographer of Florence Nightingale, narrates her life story through on-location reports from places she live...

3: Happy Families: Hanoverians to Windsors | Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

3: Happy Families: Hanoverians to Windsors | Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

History | BBC Two | 2013 | 59'02''

Lucy Worsley explores how the health of monarchs has shaped the nation. She explo...

5: Medicine and Surgery | History File

5: Medicine and Surgery | History File

History | BBC Two | 1998 | 23'58''

Programme concentrates on looking at medicine and surgery, and looks at the rise of surgery and inventions such as X-rays, the stethos...

3: Medicine and Government | History File

3: Medicine and Government | History File

History | BBC Two | 1998 | 24'04''

Using historical evidence to recreate 19th century life this programme looks at the relationship between government and medicine an...

5: Medicine, Technology and The Individual | History File

5: Medicine, Technology and The Individual | History File

History | BBC Two | 1989 | 19'13''

The principal of the germ theory of disease is credited to Louis Pasteur. But why was it taken up and acted on, so ...

Florence Nightingale: Nursing Pioneer

Florence Nightingale: Nursing Pioneer

Feminism | BBC Four | 2023 | 1'11'10''

Film following the life of an extraordinary woman, a trailblazer who revolutionised modern nursing and reformed healthcare at home and ...

S1E4: Madness of King George | Lucy Worsley Investigates

S1E4: Madness of King George | Lucy Worsley Investigates

History | BBC Two | 2022 | 58'42''

How did George's mental illness change Britain? Lucy Worsley uncovers Royal papers and explores how the attempt on h...

2: Pus | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

2: Pus | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

Antibiotics and drug development | BBC Four | 2013 | 58'56''

Dr Michael Mosley explores our earliest attempts to tackle infection and how scientists, chemists and doctors ...

3: Scientists | Icons

3: Scientists | Icons

History | BBC Two | 2019 | 59'06''

Chris examines the lives of Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Alan Turing and Tu You You. He explores some of their most famous discoveries - as well as th...

Social Darwinism and Eugenics | Victorian Sensations

Social Darwinism and Eugenics | Victorian Sensations

History | BBC Four | 2019 | 5'45''

Paul McGann investigates how Victorian scientists were developing theories about ways to prevent biological and social d...

Queen Anne’s Pregnancies | Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

Queen Anne’s Pregnancies | Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

History | BBC Four | 2013 | 4'12''

Lucy Worsley investigates Queen Anne's gynaecological record.

Trouble for William and Mary | Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

Trouble for William and Mary | Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

History | BBC Four | 2013 | 4'51''

Lucy Worsley explores the physical health and appearance of William and Mary through a study of...
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