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.
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Dan Jones visits Lancaster Castle to explore its grisly history of crime and punishment, including the infamous Lancashire Witches trials and the martyrdom of the Jesuit priest Saint Edmund Arrowsmith.
Ross first takes on the largest wrecks in Scapa Flow: Germany's sunken WWI fleet. Ross tries to understand why the proud German fleet ended up at the bottom. The trail leads to an experimental British aircraft carrier submarine.
Ross completes his specialist SCUBA training under the expert tutelage of dive Supervisor Neil Brock, and inspired by the stories of his shipwrecked relatives, he heads up to the Royal Navy's historic naval base in the far northerly Orkney Islands.
Dr Alice Roberts reveals the forgotten story of the Roman Army's cavalry as she journeys across Hadrian's Wall.
Dr Alice Roberts joins a team of archaeologists as they attempt to restage a Roman cavalry tournament.
The spectacular rock-hewn pillars of Gobekli Tepe in southern Turkey have baffled archaeologists for decades. Who built this incredible monument over 12,000 years ago, and why? Were they the first settled communities of humans in the world?
Mary Magdalene is at the heart of Christianity she was the witness to the Resurrection. Yet despite playing such a pivotal role, her life after Christ is a mystery.
Dan delves into the rich past of the Tower of London, exploring inside the imposing walls that have witnessed some of the most important events in our history.
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.
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