The First Refugees | Civilisations Stories

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 ...

S01E02: 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.

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 | 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 ...

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...

01: Arrival | Windrush (2008)

Series tracing the changes to British national life brought about by the first major influx of people from the Caribbean in 1948. The initial w...

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

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

04: Into the Light | Andrew Marr's History of the World

Andrew reaches the Middle Ages, when Vikings explored and pillaged from Northern Europe to North America.

Episode 1 | 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 immigra...

02: Intolerance | Windrush (2008)

The 1959 Notting Hill riots and the first racial killing.

Episode 1 | Lenny Henry's Caribbean Britain

Lenny Henry is joined by a host of famous faces as he celebrates his Caribbean-British heritage and explores how his culture has ...

Mansa Musa | Andrew Marr's History of the World

The year is 1324 and Emperor Mansa Musa of Mali was about to burst upon the world.

03: 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.

05: Age of Nations | Story of Ireland

This concluding part covers the dramatic history of Ireland throughout the 20th century. Presented by Fergal Keane.

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...

S01E01: 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.

Norman cultural changes | The Normans

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

S11E09: Billy Connolly | Who Do You Think You Are?

Scottish comedian and actor Billy Connolly travels to India in the footsteps of his army ancestors and makes an extraordin...

The Windrush Years (Part 1) | The Slot

A collection of short snippets of stories from the Windrush generation.

02: Making Ourselves at Home | Empire

Jeremy Paxman continues by examining how traders, conquerors and settlers spread the British way of doing things.