Guy Martin renovates a neglected narrowboat with inventions from the Industrial Revolution. He begins by building an 18th-century b...
Compilation of secondary schools programme on British History 1750-1900. Looks at how industrialisation changed the day-to-day liv...
Following the story of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's struggle to build the world's largest ship, The Great Eastern.
Guy decides to make a steam engine power the shower on board his aptly-named narrowboat, Reckless. He also visits the factory ...
In a series of programs about the chief candidates for greatness, Jeremy Clarkson argues the case for Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the great 19t...
Compilation of secondary schools programme on British History 1750-1900. Looks at how industrialisation changed the day-to-day lives o...
Howard Goodall looks at the fertile musical period between 1650 and 1750, in which many of the musical innova...
Guy Martin visits an Industrial Revolution cotton mill to weave his own sheets on 19th-century looms, then builds a m...
Continuing his exploration of the Victorian world, Jeremy Paxman tells how railways, factories and military might made Britain the richest ...
Compilation of secondary schools programme on British History 1750-1900. Looks at how industrialisation changed the day-to-day lives of ...
Victoria reigned in a time of huge change. She was the first queen to be among her public, and led the way for modern royals.
Motorcycle racer and engineering enthusiast Guy Martin makes a tin can using a 200-year-old technique, bakes his own traditional ...
Guy Martin's project is the first piston engine ever built - The Newcomen Beam Engine - which the team set out to return to full...
Compilation of secondary schools programme on British History 1750-1900. Looks at how industrialisation changed the day-to-day lives of the ...
A portrait of one village through the whole of English history sees 17th-century dissenter...
Guy and his best mate Mave decide to give their narrowboat a makeover. They learn about the most influential British interior...
Compilation of secondary schools programme on British History 1750-1900. Looks at how industrialisation changed the day-to-day lives ...
Compilation of secondary schools programme on British History 1750-1900. Looks at how industrialisation changed the ...
Guy Martin examines inventions of the Industrial Revolution. Guy and Mave show off their renovated boat and all its historic inve...
In this episode, Andrew Marr tells how Britain's Industrial Revolution created the modern world.
Fiona Watson looks at the influential Scots who played a large part in both the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revo...
Fiona Watson looks at how the prosperity of cities such as Glasgow and Dundee in the 19th century was tempered by widesp...
A 19th century resident of 62 Falkner Street earns his living from the steam train industry.
In the 1770s canals linked the country, carrying goods cheaply and efficiently. Without them it is hard to see how the Industrial Revolution could hav...
The Industrial Revolution changed Britain and the world fundamentally. It began in Britain, and coal was a key factor.
Adam Hart-Davis investigates Victorian innovation. He visits Kew Gardens to examine the plants brought back by explorers and demo...
In advance of the construction of HS2, the biggest ever cemetery excavation in Britain reveals the forgotten stories of rich and poor...
How working-class Victorians made Birmingham one of the most important industrial cities on the planet, why some skeletons have myste...
Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn help get the most famous locomotive in the world, the Flying Scotsman, into steam.
The team visit the South Devon Railway to explore the life of the branch line before the Beeching cuts of the 60s.
The team find out how more leisure time and cheap rail transport meant more freedom for working-class Victorians.
Historians Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn explore how the introduction of steam railways in the early 19th century changed Britain.
Today we take factories for granted but in the 1700s they represented a completely new way of working. Until this time most work was d...
While Josiah Wedgwood made pottery in his factories, his real genius lay in making people want this pottery - getting them to see his goods a...
A key factor in the Industrial Revolution was knowledge. Britain's political system encouraged scientific thought and freedom to try out scientific...
David Olusoga investigates the role Liverpool played in the cotton trade.
A look at the Victorian innovations that left a lasting impression on British society. This episode examines the successes and...
Adam Hart-Davis investigates Victorian innovations. He goes fossil hunting at Lyme Regis, recreates a Victorian seance, and exam...
Adam Hart-Davis investigates the Victorian innovations that left a lasting impression on British society. He discusses the ...
First transmitted in 1980, Anthony Burton discovers more about Britain's industrial past and the role of railway companies in the 19th Century.
In 1706 Parliament passed the Turnpike Act which allowed private road builders to build new roads and charge tolls for using them. It was a first, impo...
Adam Hart-Davis investigates the Victorian innovations that left a lasting impression on British society. A look at how the Vict...
17/12/1903 - The date of the first powered flight.
Adam Hart-Davis who looks at heroes who are often unsung pioneers of science and invention. Including Sarah Guppy, William Watts, Humphry Dav...
Bicycling scientist Adam Hart-Davis recreates the world's first powered flight, 50 years before Wright Brothers, by John Stringfellow, lace trade ...
Bicycling scientist Adam Hart-Davis looks at pioneers of science and invention. Includes the pocket calculator, kaleidoscopes, weighing the ear...
Adam Hart-Davis who looks at local heroes of science and invention. Including John Barber, Matthew Boulton, William Withering, William Murdock,...
Adam Hart-Davis who looks at local heroes of science and invention. Including John Boyd Dunlop, William Coppin, Rev George William Garr...
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