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Robin Hood - The Truth Behind England's Greatest Legend

The discovery of the Pharaoh's tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon in 1922 proved vi...

The Inca stronghold of Machu Picchu lay abandoned for over 350 years until a whip-crackin...

Hiroo Onoda’s World War II comes to an end in the forests of Lubang Island – ...

On 5 April, the romanticised heroine of Hollywood movies entered into the first inter-rac...

More than 400 years have passed since the death of the last Tudor monarch, yet our fascin...

How did sailors live, fight and die on board the most famous Tudor ship of them all: the ...

This year marks 100 years since Europe, and then the world, went to war. Read on to disco...

The extraordinary take of English explorer, writer, cartographer, archaeologist, diplomat...

The Viking Age stretched from the ninth to the 11th centuries. During this era, the Vikin...

The games of Ancient Rome were barbaric. In this episode we take you on a journey back to...

The legend of Spartacus has been told and retold down the centuries. But who was the real...

William Cuffay’s arrest and trial sees him transported to the other side of the wor...

“In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon, it will be an enti...

Buzz Aldrin was a brilliant engineer and a brave astronaut, but he struggled to cope with...

Atahualpa’s downfall is a tale of greed, violence and God, with devastating consequ...

Leading his army on a perilous trek from Spain to Italy, the great general scored a serie...

We look at the real characters and tragic events that inspired Steven Spielberg to create...

A clash of egos, armies and honour sees medieval England and France engage in bitter comb...

Patty Hearst falls for her kidnappers and joins them in a daring bank robbery, but how de...

In March 1429, a 17-year-old girl arrived at Charles VII’s court at Chinon. She ann...

By the time Cyrus the Great entered Babylon in October 539 BC, he had defeated three empi...

The last of the Tudors, behind the mask of England’s enigmatic Queen

To her people she was a creature of beauty and mother of the nation, but behind closed do...

To her people she was a creature of beauty and mother of the nation, but behind closed do...

The dramatic chain of events that lead to Charles I death

Joshua Slocum set sail in 1895 to become the first man to sail around the world single ha...