Isaac Newton: The Last Magician

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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.

James Simpson discovers chloroform | Medical Mavericks

Dr Michael Mosley investigates the discovery of chloroform.

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 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...

How the Black Death changed social structure | A History of Britain by Simon Schama

Simon Schama explains how the Black Death changed Medieval social structures.

John Hunter conducts the first study of disease in a controlled experiment | Medical Mavericks

John Hunter conducted the first study of disease in a controlled experiment, w...

03: Scientists | Icons

Chris examines the lives of Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Alan Turing and Tu You You. He explores some of their most famous discoveries - as well as t...

S01E04: Madness of King George | Lucy Worsley Investigates

How did George's mental illness change Britain? Lucy Worsley uncovers Royal papers and explores how the attempt on...

02: Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians | Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

Lucy Worsley explores how the health of monarchs has shaped the nation. She looks at t...

02: Bleeding Hearts | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

The series about the history of surgery charts the development of heart surgery. Michael Mosley witnesses a breath...

05: The Triumph of Art | Civilisations

Simon Schama examines how traditions developed in the years following the Renaissances.

Carrel-Dakin Method | The Crimson Field

A dramatic clip to show the Carrel-Dakin method; a WWI-era wound treatment developed by surgeon Alexis Carrel and chemist Henry Dakin...