The First Refugees | Civilisations Stories

S1E2: Conquest | The Normans

Robert Bartlett explores the impact of the Norman conquest of Britain and Ireland, and looks at how England adapted to its new masters.

Episode 1 | 1066: A Year to Conquer England

Dan Snow explores the political intrigues and family betrayals between Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Normans that led to war and the ...

Harrying of the North | The Normans

Offshoots of Anglo-Saxons, particularly in Northern England, would target roaming Normans, killing them to prevent any changes to their l...

Back in Time for Brixton

Documentary following a family who give up their modern lives for one summer to experience what life was like for Caribbeans who immigrated to Brita...

The 1066 invasion | The Normans

Robert Bartlett gives a step-by-step guide to the infamous Battle of Hastings where William took the throne from King Harold and so ended th...

The Unwanted: The Secret Windrush Files

How black immigrants who made Britain their home came face to face with the government's 'hostile environment'. David Olusoga exposes...

Episode 1 | Back in Time for Birmingham

The Sharma family experience life as a South Asian family in 50s Britain, from hard factory shifts to adapting their cooking to suit ...

Finding My Family - Windrush | Newsround Specials

Seventy years since the Windrush's UK arrival, two kids head to the Caribbean to discover why their grandparents left for a...

Series 3 | A House Through Time

David Olusoga investigates the residents of an 18th-century house in Bristol, uncovering stories of piracy, an abandoned baby, a notorious po...

Hereward the Wake | The Normans

Hereward the Wake oversaw the next resistance to King William, and got help from the Danish to attack England from the East.

Episode 2 | Back in Time for Birmingham

The Sharmas' time-travels enter the 1970s. Opening a shop, they join an explosion of South Asian entrepreneurship in Birmingham - fro...

2: Intolerance | Windrush

The 1959 Notting Hill riots and the first racial killing.

Episode 1 | Vikings

Neil Oliver heads for Scandinavia to reveal the truth behind the legend of the Vikings, exploring the mysterious world of the Vikings' prehistoric ancest...

S1E1: Men of the North | The Normans

A look at how the Normans developed from a band of marauding Vikings into the formidable warriors who conquered England in 1066.

William's castles | The Normans

William's coronation was met with some angst, but he persevered and proceeded to divide up land to Norman noblemen and build castles.

1: First Encounters | Black and British: A Forgotten History

Historian David Olusoga explores the enduring relationship between Britain and people whose origins lie in Afric...

Norman churches | The Normans

Being devout Christians, the Normans were responsible for much of the religious infrastructure England knows today.

Norman cultural changes | The Normans

Robert Bartlett describes the cultural changes that the Normans brought to Britain.

The Domesday Book | The Normans

Robert Bartlett details the beginnings of the Domesday book and the kind of information that William requested for it, highlighting the demis...

3: The Age of Revolution | Story of Ireland

Here, he looks at the changes wrought on Ireland's demographics by the Plantation of Ulster. Presented by Fergal Keane.