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- Fact-based account of a secret society of murderers, and of the man who exposed them in British India 1825.
- On the 40th anniversary of the conflict, senior commanders and ground troops reveal how a series of mistakes nearly cost Britain its hard-won victory over Argentina in the South Atlantic.
- In these 4hs we get to know everything about Queen Victoria's reign during the XIX Century. We are informed about the up and downs of her life and her people. How she managed to be the governor of such an important country.
- Former British Army Captain Tom Moore looks back on his time during the Second World War in the brutal Burma campaign, as a million Allied troops from forty nations attempted to repel the invading forces of Imperial Japan from the British colony over almost three years, between 1941 and 1944, in what has since become known as The Forgotten War.
- A documentary shedding light on Morant the drover, horse-breaker, bush poet and rebel, while also detailing the Boer War and the court-martial of Morant, Peter Handcock and George Ramsdale Witton.
- A story of war, and the Black struggle for pride and freedom: Eyewitness testimonies of surviving veterans reveal the incredible story of the British West Indies Regiment in the First World War.
- Kate finds out her she has Scandinavian heritage and they come from Sweden and her great great great grandfather Andrew johns son was found guilty of stealing potatoes for food and had previous of stealing beehive. He was sentenced to being whipped for his crime by the whipping never took place due to his death. His son however did not follow his path but trained to become a tailor and moved to London for work. On her mother Irish side a grenadier guards drummer called William colquhounin worked at Buckingham palace and he become major and gave out punishment whipping those who stepped out of line, but had started from the bottom at age 11 and had a clean record. After service move to Devon and become Dartmoor's prison warden. Kate also tells of her childhood growing up in Devon and speaks openly about how she did not come from money growing up in reading.
- Mark Wright, an entertainment reporter and former footballer finds, out his grandfather's family come from Spain. Mark learns he was related to a sword fighter, who was tortured during the Spanish Inquisition because of his Jewish faith.
- Paul's grandfather's death shocked his gran goes in to early labor, she lost the baby and her life - leaving Paul's mum an orphan but Paul discovered his grandfather fell in to a canal with suspected heat attack. Paul looks in to his English father Albert's side and finds out they were singers and played banjo buskers on the streets of London in Victorian times and a street disagreement was accused of assault involving a banjo and was imprisoned. on his mothers side, his grandfather quit the British Army and joined the IRA even sending back his army medal, he was part of the road to Irish independence.
- Arthur's journey ends in South Wales, the industrial heartland of wartime Britain, where he learns about barrage balloons that protected the docks and the story of the Bevin Boys.
- How England came out of military and economic disaster to achieve global supremacy.
- Paxman looks at how the empire began as a pirates' treasure hunt robbing Spanish ships and ports using privateers such as Henry Morgan and grew into an informal empire based on trade and developed into a global financial network. He travels to Jamaica where sugar made plantation owners rich on the mistreatment of African slaves, then to Calcutta where British traders became the new princes of India. Unfair trading helped start the independence movement led by Mahatma Gandhi who's visit to Britain and the mill town of Darwen in 1931 is remembered by two women, who were children at the time, from Lancashire. The First Opium War when British trade in opium with the Chinese in defiance of Chinese law led to war and Britain's subsequent take over of the island of Hong Kong.
- Paxman traces the growth of a peculiarly British type of hero - adventurer, gentleman, amateur, sportsman and decent chap and the British obsession with sport. He travels to East Africa in the following Victorian explorers searching for the source of the Nile; to Khartoum in Sudan to tell the story of General Gordon, and to Hong Kong where the British indulged their passion for horse racing by building a spectacular race course and to Jamaica where the greatest imperial game of all cricket became a battleground for racial equality when the West Indies formerly always had a white captain replaced by a black man.
- Paxman asks how a tiny island in the North Atlantic came to rule over a quarter of the world's population. He travels to India, where local soldiers and local maharajahs helped a handful of British traders to take over vast areas of land. Spectacular displays of imperial power dazzled the local peoples and developed a cult of Queen Victoria as Empress, mother and virtual God. In Egypt, Paxman explores Britain as a temporary peace-keeper whose visit turned into a seventy year occupation. He travels to the desert where Lawrence of Arabia is still remembered by elder tribesman that brought a touch of romance to the grim struggle of the First World War and the British triumph in Palestine that led Britain to believe it could solve the world's problems that haunts the Middle East to this day.
- Paxman continues his story of Britain's empire by looking at how traders, conquerors and settlers spread the British way of life around the world by creating a very British home. Beginning in India where early traders wore Indian costume and took Indian wives and their descendants still look fondly on their mixed heritage which in Victorian Britain was frowned upon as inter racial mixing became taboo. In Singapore he visits a club, now open to all, where British colonials used to gather together, in Canada he finds a town of Scottish ancestry whose inhabitants proud of the traditions, have shops selling imported Scottish goods, in Kenya he meets the descendants of the first white settlers who were bitterly resented as pressure for African independence grew and he traces the story of an Indian family in Leicester whose migrations have been determined by the changing fortunes of the British empire.
- Actress Samantha Womack delves into her family history, uncovering the shocking truth about her great-grandfather's military career.
- 2019–Podcast Episode
- 2019–Podcast Episode
- 2019–Podcast Episode
- The farm of Hougoumont in Belgium was the site of the bloodiest fighting at the battle of Waterloo. Thousands of men and horses died here. Tim Sutherland attempts to discover what happened to them.
- 20177.4 (29)TV EpisodeLucy debunks myths regarding the Jewel in the Crown of the British Empire - India. From the 'black hole of Calcutta' to the Indian 'mutiny', she reveals how this chapter of British history is another carefully edited narrative full of fibs.
- Actor Charles Dance has made his name playing upper-crust gents, a far cry from his own background. The search for information about his father takes Charles to the other side of the world.
- Paul Ainsworth recreates a staple of wartime palace meals. There is a visit to Britain's oldest brewery. Chef Rob Kennedy remembers an extraordinary event commemorate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.