03: Body Fantastic | James May’s 20th Century

05: Bloody Beginnings | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

Michael Mosley looks at how surgery dragged itself kicking and screaming out of the dark ages, transforming itse...

01: Black Death | World's Worst Century

Was the 14th century the worst time in history to be alive? The population of Britain was ravaged by a plague that drove mankind to t...

02: Pus | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

Dr Michael Mosley explores our earliest attempts to tackle infection and how scientists, chemists and doctors...

The Great Plague

The Great Plague of 1665 killed 100,000 Londoners - one in three of the people living in the city. While kept diaries have provided terrifying testaments to...

Episode 1 | The NHS: A People's History

This episode covers the first quarter-century of the service and unveils a host of unique artefacts, including the graduation certifi...

The doctor who discovered how cholera spread | Witness History

In the 1800s cholera was a mysterious disease killing millions around the world. No-one knew how to stop it ti...

Black Death | Ken Follett's Journey Into the Dark Ages

Ken Follett tells the story of the Black Death through the true stories of a monk in Winchester, a doctor in Florence ...

Jenner's Marvellous Medicine | A History of the World

Professor Mark Horton tells the epic story of the world's greatest medical discovery. Edward Jenner's vaccination for s...

Medicine Through Time (1989): 01: Medicine, Religion and Natural Causes | History File

This programme looks at ancient Egypt, Hippocrates, Christianity and Islam.

04: Fixing Faces | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

Series about the history of surgery continues with a look at the development of plastic surgery, which started over 4...

01: Into the Brain | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

Documentary series looking at the brutal, bloody and dangerous history of surgery begins with the area of the body ...

Breaking the Mould: The Story of Penicillin

History books tell us that Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, but that's not the whole story. This drama uncovers the forgo...

Florence Nightingale: Nursing Pioneer

Film following the life of an extraordinary woman, a trailblazer who revolutionised modern nursing and reformed healthcare at home and ...

The NHS: A Difficult Beginning

The story of the birth of the NHS, revealing how close its opponents came to defeating it and why the some of the fiercest opposition came fro...

Medicine Through Time (1989): 04: Medicine and Long Term Change | History File

Paul Viragh presents programme on medicine and long-term change - Harvey's theory of the circu...

Medieval treatment and beliefs on the cause of the Black Death | A History of Britain by Simon Schama

Simon Schama discusses the Medieval beliefs about what caused the Black...

Medicine Through Time (1998): 03: Medicine and Government | History File

Using historical evidence to recreate 19th century life this programme looks at the relationship bet...

S01E05: King Death | A History of Britain by Simon Schama

Simon Schama continues his look at British history with the Black Death, the horror of medieval Britain. Those it d...

The Story of John Snow | Moments of Genius

Clinical geneticist Professor John Burn follows in the footsteps of one of his great scientific heroes - Dr John Snow.

The symptoms of Black Death and how it spread | A History of Britain by Simon Schama

Simon Schama discusses the black death, explaining it's symptoms and how it spread.