Napoleon's defeat by the Allies at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815 changed the face of Europe. At the end of a day's savage fighting, the Emperor's forces were dramatically swept from the field, ending his dream of European domination forever.
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Dan and Amanda explore how attitudes towards sex differed drastically before the intervention of Christianity. Dan travels to the Chelsea Physic Garden to make Egyptian equivalent of Viagra and Egyptian spermicide. Amanda trains as a Spartan woman.
With Dr James Whitworth, Dan finds out how sex was used during WW2 to motivate the troops through saucy cartoons. Amanda dresses up as the biggest icon of the century, Marilyn Monroe, while Dan also plays dress-up to explore Elvis Presley's allure.
Behind closed doors the Victorians were one of the most sexually progressive societies history has seen. Amanda gets to grips with Queen Victoria's secrets while Dan finds out what historians believe was the mother of the modern-day vibrator.
Amanda meets Rosie Harte to learn how a true society girl was prepared to be a debutante. Dan meets Dr Jessica Borge to find out what lengths Georgians were willing to go to have protected sex with sex workers, making his own intestine condom.
Amanda and Dan tackle the Tudor and Stuart period. Henry VIII's affair with Anne Boleyn is brought to life in luscious dramatic reconstruction, showing Anne's sexual control over Henry before ending disastrously for her.
Dan and Amanda explore how attitudes towards sex differed drastically before the intervention of Christianity. Dan travels to the Chelsea Physic Garden to make Egyptian equivalent of Viagra and Egyptian spermicide. Amanda trains as a Spartan woman.
If there's a single period in history that really gets the imagination racing it's the time of the Crusades, which are always the subject of much historical speculation and are surrounded by myth and mystery.
Medieval Italy was a hotch-potch of City States – among them Venice, Florence and Genoa – which were very, very rich and therefore juicy targets for envious foreign powers.
If there's a single period in history that really gets the imagination racing it's the time of the Crusades, which are always the subject of much historical speculation and are surrounded by myth and mystery.
Napoleon's defeat by the Allies at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815 changed the face of Europe. At the end of a day's savage fighting, the Emperor's forces were dramatically swept from the field, ending his dream of European domination forever.
The South Yorkshire and Derbyshire border was once the boundary between north and south England. It was also the site of the magnificent hill fort of Carl Wark which was, and still is, absolutely unique in Britain.
The team is off to Switzerland next to explore the extraordinary collection of skulls found on the battlefield of Dornach – the battle fought in 1499 that won Switzerland her de facto independence from the Holy Roman Empire.
The Emerald Isle is new and fertile ground for the Medieval Dead team as it investigates the Gallowgl – the Norse/Scots clans that settled in medieval Ireland after being robbed of their lands during the Scottish Wars of Independence.
The battle of Castillon in 1453 was where the English finally lost the Hundred Years War against the bitter enemies the French. It was a seminal moment in European history that saw 4000 Englishmen killed, wounded or captured.
Medieval Italy was a hotch-potch of City States – among them Venice, Florence and Genoa – which were very, very rich and therefore juicy targets for envious foreign powers.
This time on River hunters we take on the River Garry, situated in the beautiful Scottish Highlands. Presenter Rick Edwards and river detectorist Beau Ouimette are searching for evidence of one of Scotland's bloodiest eras, the Jacobite Rebellions.
In this special episode, the River Hunters search the Cork Beck river, which runs near the site of one of the bloodiest battles to take place on British soil.
Rick Edwards and Beau Ouimette find out what the Romans ever did for Central Scotland, the answer being build forts, leave some interesting finds and, as a surprise to some, build a wall that wasn't called “Hadrian”.
Presenter Rick Edwards and river detectorist Beau Ouimette are in North Wales to investigate waterways that might contain signs of the medieval Welsh Rebellion.
The new series of River Hunters kicks off with an investigation into the last battle to have taken place on British soil, the battle of Culloden in 1746, on the outskirts of Britain's most northerly city and capital of the Highlands, Inverness.
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