The First Refugees | Civilisations Stories

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Norman cultural changes | The Normans

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

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.

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.

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: 1965-2011 | George Alagiah: Mixed Britannia

George Alagiah tells the story of couples facing violence on the streets during the 70s, how adoption became a battleground a...

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...

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.

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...

S01E03: Normans of the South | The Normans

Professor Robert Bartlett explores the impact of the Normans on southern Europe and the Middle East, as they spread south in the 1...

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.

02: Intolerance | Windrush (2008)

The 1959 Notting Hill riots and the first racial killing.

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...

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...

02: 1940-1965 | George Alagiah: Mixed Britannia

George Alagiah tells the story of the GI babies labelled war casualties, the boom in mixed-race couples following mass migrat...

05: Age of Nations | Story of Ireland

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

Episode 2 | Back in Time for Brixton

The Irwins learn how a new generation of black Britons forged their way through the 70s, 80s and 90s.