05: Marlborough | Great Britons (1990)

05: Marlborough | Great Britons (1990)

Early Modern Britain | BBC Two | 1990 | 57'47''

Military historian Corelli Barnett presents a program on John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, covering his military career and per...

The Best King We Never Had

The Best King We Never Had

Early Modern Britain | BBC Two | 2017 | 59'00''

Documentary in which Paul Murton investigates the disappearance from history of Henry Fredrick Stuart, the forgotten Scottish prince and maybe the...

02: Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians | Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

02: Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians | Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

Early Modern Britain | BBC Two | 2013 | 59'03''

Lucy Worsley explores how the health of monarchs has shaped the nation. She looks at t...

02: The Glorious Revolution | British History’s Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

02: The Glorious Revolution | British History’s Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Early Modern Britain | BBC Four | 2017 | 58'58''

Lucy explores how British history is a concoction of fibs. She debunks the 'Glorious Rev...

S01E03: Queen Anne and the Union | Royal History’s Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

S01E03: Queen Anne and the Union | Royal History’s Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Early Modern Britain | BBC Two | 2020 | 59'02''

Lucy Worsley explores how Queen Anne's legacy has been marred by historical fibs.

S02E04: Grand Heist: The Theft of the Crown Jewels | Days That Shook the World

S02E04: Grand Heist: The Theft of the Crown Jewels | Days That Shook the World

Early Modern Britain | BBC Two | 2004 | 29'30''

The theft of the Crown Jewels on May 9, 1671.

The Great Plague

The Great Plague

Early Modern Britain | Channel 4 | 2003 | 1'30'25''

The Great Plague of 1665 killed 100,000 Londoners - one in three of the people living in the city. While kept diaries have provided terrifying testaments to...

02: Queen Anne | Queens that Changed the World

02: Queen Anne | Queens that Changed the World

Early Modern Britain | Channel 4 | 2023 | 46'47''

Queen Anne took the throne in 1702. As the last Stuart monarch and the first queen of Great Britain, she united Scotland and E...

The Supersizers Go…2: Restoration | The Supersizers

The Supersizers Go…2: Restoration | The Supersizers

Early Modern Britain | BBC Two | 2008 | 58'44''

Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and performer Sue Perkins try the food of Restoration Britain in the 1660s...

S02E04: Boyne | War Walks

S02E04: Boyne | War Walks

Early Modern Britain | BBC Two | 1997 | 28'27''

Richard Holmes visits the site of the Battle of the Boyne, the defeat of James II by William III in 1690, and shows how the battle could have been ...

James II | Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

James II | Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

Early Modern Britain | BBC Four | 2013 | 3'05''

The birth of James II's son triggered a Protestant coup from William of Orange.

Was the Glorious Revolution glorious? | The Battle for Britain’s Soul

Was the Glorious Revolution glorious? | The Battle for Britain’s Soul

Early Modern Britain | BBC Two | 2007 | 2'02''

A discussion about how the Glorious Revolution had a number of unexpected consequences

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