The Jury | The Strange Case of the Law

04: Revolution | Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

Andrew Marr revisits the Britain of Margaret Thatcher and comes to some surprising conclusions about the British nat...

05: New Britannia | Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

In the final part of Andrew Marr's national saga, Britain enters the post-Thatcher era. Many have done well durin...

'Witches'' impact on women | Lucy Worsley Investigates

Lucy Worsley discusses the violence and interrogation women faced when being accused of witchery.

Setting and background to the murders | Timewatch

The setting and context in which the murders in Whitechapel were committed.

S10E03: Witchfinder General | Secret History

Documentary account, drawn from court records and testimonies, of how Matthew Hopkins and John Stern convicted hundreds of men, ...

The East End | Timewatch

An investigation of the East End of London at the time of the Whitechapel murders.

Art Behind Bars | True North

For the first time since his release, Stephen Greer returns to the prison where he learnt to paint to teach art to offenders. Will art transform...

Legacy of Jack the Ripper | Timewatch

An introduction to the creation of the myth surrounding Jack the Ripper and why people are still so interested in the case.

The Bloody Code | The Strange Case of the Law

An era when England imposed harsh capital laws for even minor crimes.

00: Learning Zone | The Strange Case of the Law

A series of 12 films in which barrister Harry Potter looks at the history of English justice, from the early concept of compe...

01: Laying Down the Law | The Strange Case of the Law

Harry Potter traces English law back to the compensation culture of Anglo-Saxon Kent, explores the rise of trial by ord...

Episode 1 | Lucy Worsley's Victorian Murder Club

Lucy Worsley takes on the historical cold case of a forgotten Victorian serial killer, dubbed the Thames Torso Murderer, who...

Episode 2 | Lucy Worsley's Victorian Murder Club

Lucy Worsley is hunting a Victorian serial killer who has scattered the remains of three women across London. Could the disc...

Henry II, Thomas Becket and the church courts | The Strange Case of the Law

The clash between royal authority and church justice in the 12th century.

London: A Tale of Two Cities with Dan Cruickshank

Dan Cruickshank follows in the footsteps of chroniclers John Stow and John Strype to explore London in the 17th century, on...

Music halls and west end gentlemen | Timewatch

The role that Victorian music halls played in the theory that Jack the Ripper was a respectable gentleman.

02: The Pursuit of Liberty | The Strange Case of the Law

Harry Potter relives the struggles and achievements of the 17th and 18th-century figures who used the law to challen...

03: Presumed Innocent | The Strange Case of the Law

Harry Potter explores the transformation that enshrined fairness in English court procedure and put the defence on an equ...

A theft from Ravensworth Terrace | A House Through Time

David Olusoga explores poverty, law and punishment in 19th century Newcastle through a case of the theft of two umbre...

Episode 3 | Lucy Worsley's Victorian Murder Club

The trail has gone cold, but could a new murder 12 years later provide fresh leads? Lucy Worsley’s hunt for a Victorian seri...