
Walking Through History
Frontline Dorset: Tony Robinson winds back the clock to 1940 for a walk along Dorset's Jurassic Coast, revealing the county's World War II role as the frontline against Hitler.

Frontline Dorset: Tony Robinson winds back the clock to 1940 for a walk along Dorset's Jurassic Coast, revealing the county's World War II role as the frontline against Hitler.

After the Dutch Republic declared its independence from Spain it was cut off from the lucrative spice trades which the Portuguese and Spanish controlled following their successful explorations of the East and West Indies and the Americas.

In the 16th century the Spanish Empire controlled the Low Countries of what is today Belgium and the Netherlands. Spain's Hapsburg monarchy had inherited the territory through dynastic intermarriage and Spain's Charles

The Lost Civilization: Decoding a lost civilization reveals the monumental challenge undertaken by some of the academic world's most brilliant minds.

The Japanese Super Code: Uncover some of the world's most renowned encryptions, revealing how they were decoded, the minds who cracked them and the secrets they masked.

The archaeologists get more than they bargained for while exploring the childhood home of Lady Jane Grey.

Dr Alice Roberts explores a secret location in the Cotswolds, which gives up a very precious and fragile artefact.

Presenter Rick Edwards and US YouTube sensation and river detectorist Beau Ouimette travel to Warwick on the hunt for incredible archaeological finds.

War of the Roses: In the East of Britain, Dr Alice Roberts finds new revelations from 'Britain's Pompeii' and the theatre where Shakespeare premiered Romeo and Juliet.

Stone Age Technology: Dr Alice Roberts uncovers some incredible finds from North Britain, including Scottish man-made islands that help paint a picture of Stone Age tech.

The Killer Code: Uncover some of the world's most renowned encryptions, revealing how they were decoded, the minds who cracked them and the secrets they masked.

The Mob Code: Uncover some of the world's most renowned encryptions, revealing how they were decoded, the minds who cracked them and the secrets they masked.

Alice Roberts visits the shipyards that built the Titanic in Belfast, the UK's most Victorian city.

In Cheltenham, Britain's most Regency town, Professor Alice Roberts attends a period society ball.

In 1685, a rebel army landed at the pretty Dorset port of Lyme Regis and swept up through Somerset, pausing at Taunton to declare its leader, Duke of Monmouth, the rightful king.

Nowhere is fact and fiction so entwined than in the stories of King John, Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham. Yet out of this legendary time came Magna Carta, a foundation stone of modern democracy.

Episode 6 of History's Greatest Myths looks at the mystery that lies in vast and unexplored places. In the relics of ancient civilisations, whose truths are lost to time. In the secrets we keep, and the ones that are kept from us.

Episode 5 of History's Greatest Myths looks at the leaders and legends who have shaped the course of history. Many become legends even in their own lifetime, others are history's greatest villains.

The Nazca lines were made by ancient people 2000 years ago and continue to exist without any damages to date. How were they formed? What purpose could they have served? Were aliens involved creating these monumental lines that form geometric designs?

The Ark of the Covenant, the ornate, gold-plated wooden chest that housed the Ten Commandments given to Moses by God. It now exists at a crossroads between myth and reality, and we intend to clearly signpost how we got here and where it may rest now.