Wellington's victory against Napoleon in 1815 ended the most powerful European empire since the Romans. Professor Holmes visits the farms and fields where history hung in the balance.
Michael Mosley transformed the lives of millions of people. In this programme, we look back at an extraordinary broadcasting career which spanned almost 40 years. Fronting series such as Trust Me I'm a Doctor and the hit...
Wir Menschen sind fast überall. Selbst, wenn wir "raus in die Natur" gehen, ist diese von uns geprägt. Der Wald wird durchforstet, um Holz zu liefern, die Wiesen dienen der Viehzucht, Skipisten führen durch...
Im 20. Jahrhundert bauten sich Familien wie die Rockefellers und die Vanderbilts ein enormes Vermögen auf. Politische Dynastien wie die Roosevelts mischten sich unter diese vermögenden Eliten, und der Pressebaron William...
Sam Willis tells the story of the English ruler who left the most indelible mark on the castle — the great Plantagenet king, Edward I, who turned it into an instrument of colonisation. Edward spent vast sums to subdue...
AN Wilson discovers the real story behind the woman who supposedly spent the last half of her life in hiding, mourning the loss of her beloved Prince Albert. Alongside this well-known image of Victoria as the weeping...
Professor Alice Roberts joins the team excavating a 3,000-year-old Bronze Age village in the Cambridgeshire Fens that has been called the British Pompeii. The village earned its nickname because 3,000 years ago it burned...
At Chirk Castle, a very rare, full-length portrait of a servant from the 18th century reveals its secrets. And in Oxburgh Hall, on the edge of the Norfolk fenlands, two rare hidden treasures — a rat's nest found under...
Zu Beginn des 20.Jahrhunderts ist Alaska ein eisiges, von wenigen Ureinwohnern bewohntes Land im hohen Norden Amerikas. 1867 vom russischen Kaiserreich erworben, wird sich die vom Meer umgebene, raue Wildnis mit Nähe zu...
The Second World War was the ultimate conflict of the machine age, and the tank was its iconic symbol. The "tankies" who fought inside had experience of much of the conflict from the fall of France to the deserts of...
The most senior-ranking Nazis have been executed or imprisoned following the international trial at Nuremberg, but many of the worst criminals are still at large. As the American zone's CIC shifts its attention to...
