A group of modern shopkeepers and their families live and trade through six key eras of history. They begin their journey in the 1870s, wh...
Chris Tarrant discovers how one simple invention revolutionised the industrial heart of Britain. He travels by narrow boat to...
Jem Stansfield uncovers the story behind the invention of the jet engine. Frank Whittle turned our world into a global ...
Adam Hart-Davis tells the story of the amazing 280-year-old wooden clock, made in Lincolnshire, that changed timeke...
Adam Hart-Davis tells the remarkable story of Thomas Newcomen, the Devon man who invented the world's first working steam-powered...
Professor Jeremy Black explains the unique economic, social and political factors that helped Britain transform itself almost ent...
Neil Oliver looks at how, in the early 19th century, rural workers fled from Scotland's countryside into the industrial t...
In a series of programs about the chief candidates for greatness, Jeremy Clarkson argues the case for Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the great 19t...
Howard Goodall looks at the fertile musical period between 1650 and 1750, in which many of the musical innova...
Guy Martin examines inventions of the Industrial Revolution. Guy and Mave show off their renovated boat and all its historic inve...
Guy and his best mate Mave decide to give their narrowboat a makeover. They learn about the most influential British interior...
Motorcycle racer and engineering enthusiast Guy Martin makes a tin can using a 200-year-old technique, bakes his own traditional ...
Guy Martin visits an Industrial Revolution cotton mill to weave his own sheets on 19th-century looms, then builds a m...
Guy decides to make a steam engine power the shower on board his aptly-named narrowboat, Reckless. He also visits the factory ...
Guy Martin renovates a neglected narrowboat with inventions from the Industrial Revolution. He begins by building an 18th-century b...
Continuing his exploration of the Victorian world, Jeremy Paxman tells how railways, factories and military might made Britain the richest ...
First transmitted in 1980, Anthony Burton discovers more about Britain's industrial past and the role of railway companies in the 19th Century.
A portrait of one village through the whole of English history sees 17th-century dissenter...
The team find out how more leisure time and cheap rail transport meant more freedom for working-class Victorians.
The team visit the South Devon Railway to explore the life of the branch line before the Beeching cuts of the 60s.
Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn help get the most famous locomotive in the world, the Flying Scotsman, into steam.
Historians Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn explore how the introduction of steam railways in the early 19th century changed Britain.
17/12/1903 - The date of the first powered flight.
How working-class Victorians made Birmingham one of the most important industrial cities on the planet, why some skeletons have myste...
In advance of the construction of HS2, the biggest ever cemetery excavation in Britain reveals the forgotten stories of rich and poor...
In this episode, Andrew Marr tells how Britain's Industrial Revolution created the modern world.
Using animation and actual recorded testimony, historian Jane Humphries tells the story of the child workers whose exploitation was ...
Compilation of secondary schools programme on British History 1750-1900. Looks at how industrialisation changed the ...
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 day-to-day lives of the ...
Compilation of secondary schools programme on British History 1750-1900. Looks at how industrialisation changed the day-to-day lives of ...
Compilation of secondary schools programme on British History 1750-1900. Looks at how industrialisation changed the day-to-day lives o...
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.
A look at the social and economic changes which took place during Queen Victoria's reign, such as indus...
Simon Schama's epic history reaches the 18th century, where an economic explosion gives birth to the cons...
Among the Worst Industrial Jobs in History are: Bridge builders, Canal leggers, bone cleaner to make b...
Guy Martin's project is the first piston engine ever built - The Newcomen Beam Engine - which the team set out to return to full...
Fiona Watson looks at how the prosperity of cities such as Glasgow and Dundee in the 19th century was tempered by widesp...
Fiona Watson looks at the influential Scots who played a large part in both the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revo...
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.
Adam Hart-Davis's search for Britain's greatest scientific pioneers is in South-East England, where he looks at the work of Hertha Ayrton, Th...
Adam Hart-Davis recalls heroes of science and invention in Wales. Amongst others, he reveals the inventions of Harry Grindell Matthews and Richard...
Adam Hart-Davis's search for Britain's greatest scientific pioneers is in North-East England, where he looks at the work of Charles Algernon,...
Adam Hart-Davis's search for pioneers of science and invention takes him to the East of England. He finds out about Benjamin Wiseman Jr, who patent...
Adam Hart-Davis's search for Britain's greatest scientific pioneers is in Devon, where he looks at the legacy of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Henry Mo...
Host Adam Hart-Davis discovers the connection between botany and Wordsworth the poet when he learns about his friend, John Gough , a local bo...
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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