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Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

Lucy Worsley, chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces, explores how...

Chivalry and Betrayal: The Hundred Years War

Chivalry and Betrayal: The Hundred Years War

The Hundred Years’ war between England and France gave us...

The Bloody Border

The Bloody Border

The painful story of Ireland and the Irish people, who...

King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons

King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons

Michael Wood argues that the most important and influential British...

A Year Of British Murder

A Year Of British Murder

Between January 1st and 31 December 2017, 768 people died...

Illuminations: The Private Lives of Medieval Kings

Illuminations: The Private Lives of Medieval Kings

Through this three part series Art Historian Dr Janina Ramirez...

Camelot

Camelot

Camelot is a historical-fantasy-drama television series based on the Arthurian...

The Crimson Petal and the White

The Crimson Petal and the White

Follow Sugar into the underbelly of Victorian London seething with...

The Hour

The Hour

A behind-the-scenes drama and espionage thriller in Cold War-era England...

Great Expectations

Great Expectations

The life of an orphan is changed by the providential...

This Is England '88

This Is England '88

Set during Christmas 1988, Lol is haunted by the devastating...

South Riding

South Riding

The lives and loves of a 1930s Yorkshire town explored...

Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency

Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency

Historian Lucy Worsley presents a series marking the 200th anniversary...

If Walls Could Talk: The History of the Home

If Walls Could Talk: The History of the Home

Lucy Worsley, chief curator of the historic royal palaces, takes...

A Merry Tudor Christmas with Lucy Worsley

A Merry Tudor Christmas with Lucy Worsley

Recreating festivities from Henry VIII's era, Lucy Worsley dresses, eats,...

Edward II of England: The Unhappy King

Edward II of England: The Unhappy King

His opponents accused him of being homosexual. The male favorites...

INFINITY minus Infinity

INFINITY minus Infinity

INFINITY minus Infinity draws on several inspirations: the modernist verse...

Prince Albert: A Victorian Hero Revealed

Prince Albert: A Victorian Hero Revealed

Professor Saul David examines Prince Albert's role in shaping British...

The King

The King

England, 15th century. Hal, a capricious prince who lives among...

Adolf Island

Adolf Island

Caroline Sturdy Colls, a world leader in the forensic investigation...

The Pillars of the Earth

The Pillars of the Earth

A sweeping epic of good and evil, treachery and intrigue,...

Digging for Britain

Digging for Britain

Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining...

The Indian Doctor

The Indian Doctor

The Indian Doctor is a British television drama set in...

Upstairs Downstairs

Upstairs Downstairs

Set in 1936, the show takes viewers, old and new,...