Seven Ages of Britain

Writer Sathnam Sanghera travels across the country exploring the effects of the British Empire on modern Britain

Travel the globe witnessing fascinating stories about art. You’ll see new artwork being made, meet artists in their studios and experience...

Sister Wendy Beckett takes a journey through the history of art in this ten-part series.

First broadcast on October 2, 1989, these 18 original 30-minute episodes provide a panorama of 2000 years of architecture, painting and sculpture,...

How the Art Nouveau movement flourished in the burgeoning cities of Europe at the end of the 19th century.

Dr James Fox explores how, in the hands of artists, the colours gold, blue and white have stirred our emotions, changed the way we behave and even...

Investigating the most notorious murders ever to take place on the British railways. The cases start from 1864 with the the first murder on a British...

Professor Alice Roberts and Dr Yasmin Khan dig deeper into he fortunes of rich and poor in Georgian London through the excavations at St James's...

Lucy Worsley explores how British history is a concoction of fibs and stories manipulated by whoever was in power at the time.

Historian Lucy Worsley debunks popular myths and royal as well as anti-royal propaganda about key events from British royal history including the...

The mythical properties of light in glass captivated not only Czech medieval culture. History of Czech glassmaking from centuries-old traditions to...

Lucy Worsley, chief curator of the historic royal palaces, takes us through 800 years of domestic history by exploring the British home through four...

The Hundred Years’ war between England and France gave us the victories of Crecy and Agincourt, and made the reputations of Edward III and...