Walking Through History
Tony walks across the Cairngorms to Balmoral, in the footsteps of Victoria and Albert who discovered and promoted the Scottish Highlands, enthusiastically adopting the kilt, the Highland Games, hunting and fishing.
Tony walks across the Cairngorms to Balmoral, in the footsteps of Victoria and Albert who discovered and promoted the Scottish Highlands, enthusiastically adopting the kilt, the Highland Games, hunting and fishing.
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The Romans: An awe-inspiring year of archaeological digs with Dr Alice Roberts. Roman finds include an amazing coin hoard and a man buried on a pile of dead animals.
Archaeology from the north of Britain neolithic Orkney a Roman altar wild horses at Flixton feasting hall Pictish treasure.
2014's exceptional archaeology Barrowclump Durotrigues Big Dig Winchester Bling Ipplepen.
The meaning of new finds at Norwich Castle Museum Must Farm Colchester Basing House Silchester.
Dr Alice Roberts goes in search of our elusive Stone Age ancestors. Along the way she visits the Channel island of Jersey where she meets a team of archaeologists hoping to shed new light on the much-maligned Neanderthals.
Dr Alice Roberts travels back to the Ages of Bronze and Iron to discover what kind of a place Britain was before the Romans invaded.
Dr Alice Roberts travels back to the Viking Age in Britain and visits excavations that are revealing a different side to these seafaring pirates from Scandinavia.
Focusing on Roman Britannia, where finds include the thickening mystery of 97 baby skeletons found by the Thames, a newly discovered town in rural Devon that turns history on its head, and a Roman cult figure buried for 1700 years beneath a fort.
From the Austro-Hungarian Empire to Britain in the early Middle Ages, uncover the origins of the curses surrounding Franz Ferdinand's car, Lindow Man and more.
From a hidden tomb in Turkey to a death bed in Norway, uncover the origins of the curses surrounding the Karun Treasure, Edvard Munch's The Sick Child paintings and more.
East: Alice Roberts and Matt Williams present more outstanding archaeology. The team unearths a mass grave and search the Thames for clues to a 17th century tragedy.
West: Alice Roberts and Matt Williams visit sites in the west of Britain, including one uncovering the rituals of Stonehenge.
Tony walks across the Cairngorms to Balmoral, in the footsteps of Victoria and Albert who discovered and promoted the Scottish Highlands, enthusiastically adopting the kilt, the Highland Games, hunting and fishing.
Three remarkable Victorian sisters and their dissolute brother grew up and died relatively young in a small Yorkshire village but their stellar literary success created a posthumous personality cult that still exists today.
Karl Ude-Martinez looks at various items of weaponry employed during 1916's Battle of the Somme, from machine guns to poison gas.
Professor Alice Roberts explores the English Civil War through the history of Oxford, the city at the heart of a battle between an autocratic king and his rebellious parliament.
Professor Alice Roberts tells the story of Edwardian Britain by visiting Cardiff, which grew rich selling the coal that powered the Empire.
The River Hunters head to the cathedral city of Canterbury in Kent, where they are granted special permission to undertake the first official search of this section of the River Stour.
The River Hunters head to the River Lochy in search for evidence of the clashing Scottish clans embroiled in the 17th century civil war.
The archaeologists get more than they bargained for while exploring the childhood home of Lady Jane Grey.
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