Power, Politics and Society

Royal Coronation | Newsround Specials

Ricky explores the special coronation ceremony at London's Westminster Abbey on Saturday 6 May.

The King | Newsround Specials

Ricky explores the life of King Charles III, ahead of his special coronation ceremony at London's Westminster Abbey on Saturday 6 May.

Episode 3 | The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain

In her story of Britain's imported German dynasty, Lucy Worsley shows how Britain's new ruling family foug...

Episode 2 | The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain

In her story of Britain's imported German dynasty, Lucy Worsley shows how George II had to adapt to a grow...

Episode 1 | The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain

Dr Lucy Worsley's series begins in 1714 when, to prevent the crown falling into the hands of a Catholic, B...

S2E10: The Abdication of Edward VIII | Days That Shook the World

A British royal scandal: the abdication of Edward VIII.

S1E1: The Coronation of Elizabeth II | Days That Shook the World

A look at the June 2, 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

1: A New Dawn | Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain

Andrew Marr revisits Britain at the dawn of the 20th century. He finds the country mourning the death of Queen Vic...

4: The Welsh Borders | History File

Edward I defeats Llewelyn ap Gruffydd, last prince of independent Wales. Edward's aim is British unity under English rule, but does he ju...

2: Creating Britishness | Union with David Olusoga

David Olusoga reveals how, in the 18th century, a new British identity was forged in the face of multiple threats from wit...

George's Power Slips | The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain

Lucy Worsley discusses Jacobean opposition to George I.

Georgian Architecture | The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain

Lucy Worsley investigates Georgian neo-Palladian architecture.

George I's Mistresses | The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain

Lucy Worsley investigates depictions of King George I's Mistresses.

The Stuarts Vs George I | The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain

Lucy Worsley discusses the differences between painting depictions of the Stuarts and the Ha...

George is under pressure | The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain

Lucy Worsley explores the opposition to George I and the Hanoverians.

George I is crowned | The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain

Lucy Worsley investigates the crowing of King George I.

Electress Sophia of Hanover | The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain

Lucy Worsley discusses the life and character of Sophia of Hanover, the closest Protesta...

Who shall rule next | The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain

Lucy Worsley introduces the Georgian era and the issue of who would be King after Queen Anne.

George III Versus Parliament | Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

Lucy Worsley discusses the battles in parliament during King George's moments of madness.

Fredrick and Caroline | Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

On her deathbed Caroline refused to see her estranged son Frederick.

S9E3: Protesting with Pankhurst | Horrible Histories

Protests about inequality or environmental damage are common today, but how have people protested in the past? Emmeline ...

Formidable Florence Nightingale (Song) | Horrible Histories

Nurse, statistician and social reformer - the Lady with the Lamp did a lot of amazing things!

Mary Seacole (Song) | Horrible Histories

Mary Seacole's life as a nurse in the Crimean War.

The FA's ban on women's football | Nation on Film

Investigating the financial reasons behind the FA's ban of women's football in 1921.

Women's Football | Nation on Film

The popularity of the Dick Kerr Ladies football team.

Dick Kerr Ladies | Nation on Film

An introduction to the Dick Kerr Ladies football team.

7: Women's Liberation | 1900s House

The arrival of the maid has given Joyce the freedom to investigate the history of the suffragette movement. But the more she learns about...

3: Breakthroughs and Backlash | The Women Who Changed Modern Scotland

Kirsty Wark navigates the devolution era and reveals what happens when women take the lead, from the sh...

2: Having It All | The Women Who Changed Modern Scotland

Kirsty Wark explores the 1980s and 90s, when legislative leaps enshrined new rights for women. But with sexism rife,...

1: The Disruptors | The Women Who Changed Modern Scotland

Kirsty Wark reveals how pioneering women of the 1960s and 70s seized the baton from previous generations and surged...

20th Century Wrap: 2: 1910s: Why Didn't Suffragettes Win the Vote? | History File

This programme investigates the Suffragette movement.

6: Sylvia Pankhurst | Shoulder to Shoulder

1914: War is declared, and women still do not have the vote.

5: Outrage | Shoulder to Shoulder

The campaign grows. Suffragettes destroy property, and Emily Wilding Davison becomes a martyr to the cause.

4: Christabel Pankhurst | Shoulder to Shoulder

Black Friday - 18 November 1910. A violent struggle in Parliament Square between suffragettes and police. But why don't the po...

2: Annie Kenney | Shoulder to Shoulder

1904: Annie Kenney - a mill worker since the age of ten. What has Women's Suffrage to offer her?

1: The Pankhurts | Shoulder to Shoulder

1898: Dr and Mrs Pankhurst and their four children are living comfortably in Manchester. However, in that year an event occurs which ...

4: Florence Nightingale | Great Britons (1990)

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

3: Women | Not Forgotten

Women, discussing how women's roles and expectations in society changed as a result of the war.

S2E3: The Russian Revolution | Royal History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Lucy explores the myths and fibs that swirl around the dramatic events of 1917 and discovers it...

3: Medicine, Women and Society | History File

Only one in four GP's in Britain is a woman. How were women excluded from medicine during the Middle Ages, & what problems did ...

Time Treasures - Guy Fawkes | Watch

The past explored through artefacts and dramatic reconstructions. In this programme, who was Guy Fawkes, and how and why did he plot to b...

Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot

In a one-off precursor to his Historyonic's series, Nick Knowles gets a behind-the-scenes look at why a Yorkshire-born zealot called Guy Fa...

John Smith | Learning Zone

John has been accused of forging letters from his employer to allow him to get clothes on credit from local shops, but John insists that he couldn...

Jane Angus | Learning Zone

Jane Angus, aged just 12, tells us how she was caught stealing a basket from a passenger at Greenock railway station. Jane was sentenced to 10 day...

James Fleming | Learning Zone

13 year old James Fleming from Perth explains the background that lead him to be sent to an Industrial school.

James Dunn Barr | Learning Zone

James Dunn Barr tells how he was sentenced to 9 months in prison in 1889 for housebreaking. Two historians guide us through what life would h...

Dick Turpin (Song) | Horrible Histories

The highwayman, Dick Turpin, is famous for his saying 'Stand and Deliver!' Oh and all of the robbery's he committed.

Fawkes' 13 | Horrible Histories

This Bonfire Night, watch as Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators embark on a devilish plot to blow up Parliament.

A theft from Ravensworth Terrace | A House Through Time

David Olusoga explores poverty, law and punishment in 19th century Newcastle through a case of the theft of two umbre...

6: The Men Who Wouldn't Fight | Not Forgotten

In this special edition of Not Forgotten, Ian Hislop explores the powerful and often overlooked stories of conscientious object...

Episode 2 | Rebel Heart

Ernie is released fr prison, but the tranquility of the life he led before the Easter rising is short lived.

20th Century Wrap: 4: 1950s: Britain - A Time of Change? | History File

Schools history programme looking at 1950's, a period of great change. How did British people react ...

Episode 2 | Firebombers

It's 1986, and the arson group have ramped up their attacks, taking the firebombing campaign over the border into England. The government enlist the ...

Episode 1 | Firebombers

It's 1979, and four holiday homes in Wales are torched in one night. It’s the beginning of an arson campaign. The story of Meibion Glyndwr told by th...

3: Rogues Gallery | Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and Rogues

Sam Willis looks at urban crime, fraud and corruption in the 18th century, uncovering a fascinating rog...

S2E2: The Gunpowder Plot | Lucy Worsley Investigates

On 5 November 1605, a group of conspirators planned to blow up parliament. Lucy Worsley investigates the Gunpowder Plot,...

S2E1: Jack the Ripper | Lucy Worsley Investigates

How did the Jack the Ripper case shape the way true crime is covered today? Lucy Worsley investigates how these shocking ki...

Episode 3 | Elizabeth I's Secret Agents

A look at the world's first secret service. England has a new monarch and Robert Cecil exposes the most infamous terrorist threat in ...

S10E3: Witchfinder General | Secret History

Documentary account, drawn from court records and testimonies, of how Matthew Hopkins and John Stern convicted hundreds of men, w...

S7E1: Great Train Robbery | Secret History

This program tells the real story of one of the most enduring crime news stories of the century, the great train robbery on August...

Episode 3 | The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain

In her story of Britain's imported German dynasty, Lucy Worsley shows how Britain's new ruling family foug...

Episode 2 | The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain

In her story of Britain's imported German dynasty, Lucy Worsley shows how George II had to adapt to a grow...

3: World in Motion | The 80s with Dominic Sandbrook

Dominic Sandbrook looks at a dynamic decade. The late 80s saw Britain transformed, from the rise of the yuppie to a growi...

3: Magna Carta | History File

1215: the barons rebel against Bad King John, but was he solely to blame? Programme shows how power in medieval England was divided between kin...

The Last Journey of the Magna Carta King

Dr Ben Robinson retraces the dramatic last days of King John, famous for the creation of Magna Carta, and uncovers the legend of his...

Jenner's Marvellous Medicine | A History of the World

Professor Mark Horton tells the epic story of the world's greatest medical discovery. Edward Jenner's vaccination for s...

3: Darwin | Great Britons (2002)

Andrew Marr presents the case for Charles Darwin as the greatest Briton, reporting from the Galapagos Islands, where Darwin first witnessed ...

5: Medicine and Surgery | History File

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

2: Medicine and Science | History File

Schools prog on history.

5: Medicine, Technology and The Individual | History File

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

4: Medicine and Long Term Change | History File

Paul Viragh presents programme on medicine and long-term change - Harvey's theory of the circulation of the blood is usually ...

2: Medicine, Public Health and Government | History File

With the fall of the Roman Empire came the collapse of the public health system which they had initiated. What broug...

3: Medicine, Women and Society | History File

Only one in four GP's in Britain is a woman. How were women excluded from medicine during the Middle Ages, & what problems did ...

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

Dr Michael Mosley explores how scientists went from finding antidotes to poisons to applying poisons as cur...

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

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

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

Michael Mosley discovers what pain is and how we were able to control it with the discovery of morphine at th...

Workers or Shirkers? Ian Hislop's Victorian Benefits

Ian Hislop presents an entertaining and provocative look at Victorian attitudes to the poor, exploring the views of five...

0: Goes Back in Time | Operation Ouch!

Dr Chris and Dr Xand turn back the clock and look at what medicine was like in the First World War. They meet a Paralympian runner who...

Ian Hislop: When Bankers Were Good

Ian Hislop presents a film about Victorian financiers known for their spectacular philanthropy, including Samuel Gurney, George Peabody, A...

Mad George III | Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

Lucy Worsley discusses the bad health and supposed madness of George III.

20th Century Wrap: 1: 1900s: Britain at its Peak? | History File

This programme investigates the myth of the Edwardian ''Golden Age''.

S3E4: Empire | Monarchy By David Starkey

George I and his two namesakes forged new relationships with parliamentary leaders, creating a dynamic that survives in British gove...

1: The Making of Britain | Union with David Olusoga

David Olusoga tells the story of attempts to form a united Britain in the 17th and early 18th centuries, a period defined...

2: The Land of Lost Consent | Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

The 1950s were a period of apparent calm, order and prosperity for Britain, but much of the populace wa...

3: Paradise Lost | Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

As the 1960s progress, Harold Wilson takes centre stage in a rapidly changing Britain as the country looks to a fa...

The Two Party System | Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

Lucy Worsley investigates the beginnings of the two party system.

John Bright | Speaker's House

Recorded coverage of the lecture delivered by Conservative MP Sir Bill Cash on John Bright (1811-1889), the British radical and liberal statesm...

Robert Peel and The Corn Laws | Reflections: When Parties Split

In the first programme in a series of half-hour unscripted talks on party splits, political journalist Steve ...

Episode 6 | Back in Time for Tea

In this final episode of the series, the family reflects on their time-travel adventure and explores how the legacy of 100 years of tumultuo...

Episode 5 | Back in Time for Tea

The Ellis' 80's home is a homage to chintz and magnolia with the exciting addition of some new technology: their first telephone, a chest fr...

Episode 4 | Back in Time for Tea

The Ellis family see how life changed for northern working-class families in the 1970s, enjoying rare time together, helped by the acquisiti...

Episode 3 | Back in Time for Tea

The Ellis family discover how life has changed for northern working-class families. 1960 marks the start of an era of prosperity. Dad Jon pu...

20th Century Wrap: 5: 1960s: The 'Me' Generation? | History File

Schools history programme looking at the 1960's.

6: 21st Century | Back in Time for the Corner Shop

After 100 years running a corner shop in Sheffield, the Arderns continue their time-travelling adventure by exploring how ...

5: 80s and 90s | Back in Time for the Corner Shop

The Arderns go back in time to run a corner shop through the 80s and 90s. Selling everything from Ice Magic to lottery tick...

4: 1970s | Back in Time for the Corner Shop

The Arderns continue their time-travelling journey running a corner shop and enter the 70s. Comedian Sanjeev Kohli visits the fam...

3: 50s and 60s | Back in Time for the Corner Shop

The Arderns continue their time-travelling adventure from postwar rationing to the boom years of the 60s and discover how s...

2: 20s, 30s and 40s | Back in Time for the Corner Shop

The Arderns continue their time-travelling journey in the 20s, 30s and 40s. From Izal loo roll to powdered eggs, they ...

1: Victorian | Back in Time for the Corner Shop

The Arderns start their time-travelling adventure running a Victorian corner shop, discovering how life behind the counter re...

3: Thomas Cook and His Son | Great Britons (1990)

John Pudney traces the life and times of Thomas and John Mason Cook, the inventors of the modern package holiday, visiting ...

4: The Winner Takes It All 77-79 | The 70s

Dominic Sandbrook looks at the final years of the decade, marked by concerns that appear startlingly current.

3: Goodbye Great Britain 75-77 | The 70s

Dominic Sandbrook looks at sex discrimination laws, football hooliganism and industrial unrest.

2: Doomwatch 73-74 | The 70s

Dominic Sandbrook looks at the impact of a fast-changing world on British life and the effects of the oil price hike of the 70s.

1: Get It On 70-72 | The 70s

Historian Dominic Sandbrook explores the 1970s. He reveals a Britain brimming with aspiration as ordinary people first felt the thrill of freedo...

3: Party Like It's 1899 | Revolution and Romance: Musical Masters of the 19th Century

Suzy Klein examines how the music of the 19th century was able to flourish through econ...

2: Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution | Revolution and Romance: Musical Masters of the 19th Century

Series in which Suzy Klein explores the transformation of music in the 19th centu...

1: We Can Be Heroes | Revolution and Romance: Musical Masters of the 19th Century

Suzy Klein shows how, as the aristocracy weakened and the middle classes flourished, compos...

6: The Popular Age | Howard Goodall's Story of Music

Composer Howard Goodall looks at the popular age - the last hundred years in music. A period when classical music seemed...