5: The North: Full Steam Ahead | How We Built Britain

3: The Jewel in the Crown | British History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Lucy explores how British history is a concoction of fibs. She debunks the fibs that surround th...

Episode 1 | Rebel Heart

Drama about an idealistic young man's coming of age during the birth of the Irish nation.

The beginnings of the British slave trade | Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners

David Olusoga investigates the beginnings of the British slave trade in Barbados.

Where did the slavery compensation money end up? | Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners

David Olusoga explains how the profits of slavery shaped the world we know today.

Charles Wootton | Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga discusses racial violence in Liverpool.

Slave plantation system | Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners

David Olusoga discusses the slave plantation system in the Caribbean.

1: Why Britain? | Empire: How Britain Made The Modern World

In this programme we learn about the origins of the British empire in the 17th century and how its foundations we...

5: Maxim Force | Empire: How Britain Made The Modern World

The 'scramble for Africa' by competing European nations during the last years of Queen Victoria's reign is the com...

6: Age of Empire | Seven Ages of Britain

David Dimbleby travels through Britain, America and India, tracing the British Empire from 1750 to 1900.

Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners

In 1834 Britain abolished slavery, a defining and celebrated moment in our national history. What has been largely forgotten is that aboliti...

Implements of torture | Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners

David Olusoga views the implements of torture that slave owners used to enforce the slave plantation system.

Slave Owner Compensation Commission | Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners

David Olusoga introduces the slave owner compensation records.

John Blanke | Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga discusses Catherine of Aragon's black servants.

Morant Bay Rebellion | Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga discusses the legacy of the slave trade in Jamaica in the decades after abolition.

S3E3: The Empire of Good Intentions | A History of Britain by Simon Schama

How the liberal politics and free-market economics of the British Empire unravelled, leading to th...

Shifting historical opinions on the British Empire | A Timewatch Guide

David Olusoga explains how historical perspectives of the British Empire have shifted through time.

Slave owner compensation arguments | Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners

David Olusoga discusses the arguments used by slave owners when fighting for compensation.

Bunce Island | Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga visits Bunce Island, where the first slave fortress was built in the 17th century.

First English traders in West Africa | Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga investigates the first English traders in West Africa.

Slave owner propaganda tactics | Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners

David Olusoga discusses the tactics used by slave owners against the abolitionist.