Dr Yasmin Khan tracks down passengers who travelled from Mumbai to Britain in the 1930s on the luxurious P&O liner The Viceroy...
In this programme we learn about the origins of the British empire in the 17th century and how its foundations we...
Lucy explores how British history is a concoction of fibs. She debunks the fibs that surro...
In the 1920s, Imperial Britannia slid from view and Britain saw a housing boom and the birth of radio bro...
In this programme we discover how a few thousand British people ruled over India, a country of more than ...
Historian David Olusoga concludes his series with the three African kings who stood up to empire, an irresistible ...
David Dimbleby tours Britain to discover the buildings that have made us who we are. He travels west, where he finds...
The 'scramble for Africa' by competing European nations during the last years of Queen Victoria's reign is the com...
David Dimbleby tours Britain to discover the buildings that have made us who we are. Dimbleby travels north to the powe...
David Dimbleby travels through Britain, America and India, tracing the British Empire from 1750 to 1900.
David Olusoga visits Hadrian's Wall and discusses the Roman history of black soldiers.
David Olusoga discusses the events of the Anglo-Zulu war and how it has been depicted in film.
David Olusoga investigates the Bechuanaland Chiefs.
Davis Olusoga investigates the Bill Richmond black boxer who took Georgian Britain by storm.
In 1834 Britain abolished slavery, a defining and celebrated moment in our national history. What has been largely forgotten is that a...
In the late 1880's, thousands of people were passing through Liverpool and emigrating to America. David Olusoga investig...
David Olusoga visits Bunce Island, where the first slave fortress was built in the 17th century.
David Olusoga examines not whether the British Empire was a force for good or ill, but rather how it has been portrayed on British television.
David Olusoga discusses racial violence in Liverpool.
David Olusoga discusses controversial argument in favour of British colonial rule in India...
Drama about an idealistic young man's coming of age during the birth of the Irish nation.
Ernie is sent to the west of Ireland by Michael Collins to rally support but learns that Kelly and O'Toole are awaiting execution.
It's 1922 and Ernie and Ita are together at last, while Ireland is poised to win her independence.
David Olusoga investigates the first English traders in West Africa.
David Olusoga discusses the first slave society in Barbados.
David Olusoga discusses the life and work of Frederick Douglas.
David Olusoga investigates the passenger list to Freetown in Africa.
David Olusoga discusses Granville Sharpe and Jonathan Strong's roles in the abolition of slavery.
David Olusoga explores the immigration of people from the empire to Britain.
David Olusoga views the implements of torture that slave owners used to enforce the slave plantation system.
David Olusoga investigates the British independent slave owners.
David Olusoga discusses Catherine of Aragon's black servants.
David Olusoga explains how perceptions of empire have shifted throughout different generations.
David Olusoga explains how the American civil war caused a cotton famine in Lancashire.
David Olusoga discusses the cotton industry in Mississippi and how it fuelled Britain's industrial revolution.
David Olusoga discusses the legacy of the slave trade in Jamaica in the decades after abolition.
David Olusoga talks to Neil Kenlock about his photographs of the exp...
David Olusoga investigates American Independence and the revolution of the African slaves.
How the liberal politics and free-market economics of the British Empire unravelled, leading to th...
Weathering the anti-royalist storm breaking on the continent, Great Britain stands strong against the military might of Napoleon. ...
David Olusoga discusses the remarkable life of Sara Forbes Bonetta.
David Olusoga explains how historical perspectives of the British Empire have shifted through time.
David Olusoga discusses the slave codes that stripped black people of all their rights.
David Olusoga explains how slaves were passed down through families in inheritance.
David Olusoga discusses the arguments used by slave owners when fighting for compensation.
David Olusoga introduces the slave owner compensation records.
David Olusoga discusses the tactics used by slave owners against the abolitionist.
David Olusoga discusses the slave plantation system in the Caribbean.
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