iPlayer History category featured programmes
Back-to-back history shows bringing the past to life
The Arderns' adventure starts behind the counter of a Victorian corner shop.
Two friends with a passion for the past explore the abandoned metal mines of mid Wales.
Kirsty Wark explores the 1970s and early 1980s, an era of shops, pop, new towns and oil.
Reeling from World War One, residents feel the impact of a new political party, the Nazis.
First-hand account of the 1984 bombing of the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton.
A film that explores the human cost of atomic bombs used in wartime.
Alice Roberts follows a decade-long quest that reveals Stonehenge's oldest secret.
Killer and spy: the Stakeknife inquiry leads Peter Taylor back to victims of the Troubles.
Drawing on the latest science, this documentary rewrites the story of Easter Island.
Ken Burns recounts the collision between two opposing views of the natural world.
Lucy Worsley investigates real-life murders of the first half of the 19th century.
Simon Schama looks at what forests have come to represent in the world of culture.
The story of the Black African Kingdom of Kush.
At Pompeii, in the biggest dig in a generation, archaeologists excavate a new city block.
TV star Gemma Collins goes on an emotional journey in search of her family history.
Documentary about Gustave Eiffel's industrial feat in building France's famous landmark.
The story of 15 men and women on the front line of the 1984 miners' strike.
Spy-charged paranoia sees hostile superpowers heading to the brink of nuclear war.
Michael Portillo embarks on a railway journey around the western coast of Wales.
The Allies launch a high-stakes invasion of Nazi-occupied France to win the war.
The Vasa, the majestic Swedish galleon, sank just after setting off on her maiden voyage.
Mary Beard uncovers the hidden world of the emperors of Rome.
A shell gallery needs shoring up, and a priceless Rubens is saved from falling down.
