History
Civilisations
Thousands of years of visual culture explored on the 麻豆社 and beyond.
Series 1: 1. Second Moment of Creation (59 mins)
- Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery QueenA life as dramatic as her work. The secret factors that shaped her dark imagination
- Killing Sherlock: Lucy Worsley on the Case of Conan DoyleThe ultimate power struggle. The famed super-sleuth and the writer who came to resent him
- Pavlopetri - The City Beneath the WavesFollowing the excavation of Pavlopetri, the oldest submerged city in the world.59 mins
- A Life in Ten PicturesEvery picture tells a story. Freddie's defining moments, revealed by those who were there
- Simon Schama's History of NowA lifetime in art 鈥� and the enduring power of culture in shaping the defining issues
- Genius of the Ancient WorldBettany Hughes travels to India to investigate the revolutionary ideas of the Buddha.
- Britain's Pompeii: A Village Lost in TimeAlice Roberts joins the team excavating a 3,000-year-old Bronze Age village in the Fens.59 mins
- The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made BritainIn 1714, Britain shipped in a ready-made royal family from the German state of Hanover.
- Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and RoguesThough romanticised in literature, the highwayman became a social menace on the roads.
- Castles: Britain's Fortified HistoryHow the castle became a weapon with which unruly barons challenged the Crown.
- Mysteries of the Bayeux TapestryExperts from archaeologists to astrophysicists offer new insights on the Bayeux Tapestry.59 mins
- Archaeology: A Secret HistoryRichard Miles explores how archaeology began by trying to prove a biblical truth.
