The Most Dangerous Man in Tudor England

04: The Battle Against the Spanish Armada | Battlefield Britain

Peter and Dan Snow take a look at the battles that shaped our nation. Drake's unlikely sea victory against th...

Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary

Drama revealing the intimate and ultimately deadly relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots, using the words of the ...

Episode 1 | Edward and Mary: The Unknown Tudors

The story of two of Henry VIII's most extraordinary children, Mary 1st and Edward VI - England's fundamentalists.

What Caused the Spanish Armada? | Armada: 12 Days to Save England

Dan Snow discusses the foundations of what caused the Spanish Armada.

Religious reform under Edward VI | A History of Britain by Simon Schama

Simon Schama discusses the religious reform under Edward VI.

Fireships | Armada: 12 Days to Save England

Dan Snow explores the English use of fireships against the Spanish Armada.

01: Tudors to Stuarts: From Gods to Men | Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

Lucy Worsley explores how the health of past monarchs has shaped the nation. She exa...

Episode 2 | Edward and Mary: The Unknown Tudors

The story of two of Henry VIII's most extraordinary children, Mary 1st and Edward VI - England's fundamentalists.

Henry VII: The Winter King

Author Thomas Penn takes an extraordinary journey into the dark and chilling world of the first Tudor, Henry VII. His investigations reveal the ru...

S02E10: Affairs of the Crown: The Execution of Anne Boleyn | Days That Shook the World

A British royal scandal: the trial and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn.

The Destruction of the Monasteries | Henry VIII: Patron or Plunderer?

Jonathan Foyle investigates Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries.

Episode 1 | Six Wives Of Henry VIII

Dr David Starkey reveals the stories behind Henry's third and fourth wives. Henry married Jane Seymour the day after Anne Boleyn's execut...

Episode 1 | Tudor Monastery Farm

Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold turn the clock back over 500 years to run a farm in West Sussex exactly...

The Supersizers Go...5: Elizabethan | The Supersizers

Giles Coren and Sue Perkins experience the food of the Elizabethan era to see just how healthy the diet was.

S01E06: Burning Convictions | A History of Britain by Simon Schama

Simon Schama tells the story of the Reformation, from Henry VIII's love for Anne Boleyn to Bloody Mary's u...

S09E06: The Spanish Armada | Secret History

Documentary looking at the attempted invasion of England by the Spanish Armada in the summer of 1588. Looks at what happened and ...

Religion under Elizabeth I | A History of Britain by Simon Schama

Simon Schama explains how Elizabeth developed a Protestant Englishness during her reign.

The Battle of Gravelines | Armada: 12 Days to Save England

Dan Snow investigates the Battle at Gravelines, the largest confrontation of the Spanish Armada.

03: Defence of the Realm | Castles: Britain's Fortified History

Sam Willis looks at how castles survived into the Tudor era. But these strategic seats of power had to become...

Early Life of Henry | Henry VIII: Patron or Plunderer?

Jonathan Foyle discusses Henry VIII's first actions as King of England.