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Factual: History

(361 programmes in total)

  1. 100 Years of the Royal Flying Corps
  2. 1707: In the Footsteps of Defoe
  3. 1707: Take an Englishman and a Scotsman
  4. 1707: The Birth of Britain
  5. 1960-2010
  6. 1968 - The Year of Revolutions
  7. 1968 Day by Day
  8. 1968 Day by Day Omnibus
  9. 1968 The Sixty-Eighters at Sixty
  10. 1968: Day by Day
  11. 1968: Philosophy in the Streets
  12. 1968: Rivers of Blood: The Real Source
  13. 1989: Day by Day
  14. 1989: Day by Day Omnibus
  15. 1989: How The Wall Fell
  16. 1989: Restitching the City
  17. 1989: Simpson Returns
  18. 1989: The '89 Generation
  19. A Blunt Instrument
  20. A Brief History of Mathematics Available on BBC iPlayer
  21. A Dinosaur Called Sue
  22. A Dream of Eleanor
  23. A History of Private Life
  24. A History of Private Life: Omnibus
  25. A History of the Brain Available on BBC iPlayer
  26. A History of the Brain Omnibus
  27. A History of the World in 100 Objects Available on BBC iPlayer
  28. A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus Available on BBC iPlayer
  29. A History of the World Special Available on BBC iPlayer
  30. A Kiss Is... Never Just a Kiss
  31. A Royal Recovery
  32. A Very Theatrical Revolution
  33. A Voyage on Livingstone's Lake Available on BBC iPlayer
  34. Adventures in Junk
  35. Africa at 50
  36. Africa at 50: Wind of Change
  37. Almanacs: The Oldest Guides to Everything
  38. Alvin Hall in The Bonfire of the Vanities
  39. America, Empire of Liberty
  40. America, Empire of Liberty Available on BBC iPlayer
  41. America, Empire of Liberty Omnibus
  42. Ampers-Fan
  43. An African Asian Affair
  44. Ankle High History
  45. Armistice Day Silence
  46. Art in the Trenches
  47. At War with Wellington
  48. At War with Wellington Docudrama
  49. Auld Firm Old Family
  50. Austria: A Convenient Victim
  51. Bach's Choir Available on BBC iPlayer
  52. Baghdad of the Mind
  53. Bailout Boys Go to Dublin
  54. Bandits of the Blitz
  55. Banishing Eve
  56. Barry Humphries in Weimar
  57. Behind the Scenes with Carbon Dioxide
  58. Being Prince of Wales
  59. Belsen after Belsen
  60. Big Fish, Small Ponds
  61. Black History Month & The Usual Suspects
  62. Black Is a Country
  63. Black Students in Red Russia
  64. Bong! The Condensed History of Big Ben
  65. Bosphorus Available on BBC iPlayer
  66. Boundaries of Blood Available on BBC iPlayer
  67. Brand Cuba
  68. Bricks and Mortals
  69. Britain In Their Sites
  70. Britain on the Bottle: Alcohol and the State
  71. Britain's Black Revolutionary
  72. Britain's Sputnik Available on BBC iPlayer
  73. Britain's White House
  74. Broken Arrow
  75. Bronzeville Lives: Chicago's Black Metropolis
  76. By Jove Carruthers!
  77. Bye Bye Lullaby
  78. Byzantium Unearthed
  79. Catholics and Jews
  80. Charles Wheeler: Coming Home
  81. Charles Wheeler: Evacuation: The True Story
  82. Charles Wheeler: The Child Migrants
  83. Charles Wheeler: The Peacetime Conscripts
  84. Cheers!
  85. Churchill's Other Lives
  86. Churchill's Roar Available on BBC iPlayer
  87. Cleaning Out the Camp
  88. Coming Home Available on BBC iPlayer
  89. Comrades
  90. Cosmic Quest Available on BBC iPlayer
  91. Cosmic Quest Omnibus
  92. Cruickshank on New Zealand
  93. Culloden: A New Battle
  94. Dancing with the Devil
  95. Darwin: My Ancestor
  96. Dave Brown's New Highway Code
  97. Dead Sea Scrolls Revisited Available on BBC iPlayer
  98. Deep in the Heart of Texas
  99. Defining The Decade Available on BBC iPlayer
  100. Democracy on Trial Available on BBC iPlayer
  101. Discovering the Sitwells
  102. Discovery of England Available on BBC iPlayer
  103. Document Available on BBC iPlayer
  104. Domesday Reloaded - Me and My Square Available on BBC iPlayer
  105. Domesday Reloaded: How Britain Has Changed Available on BBC iPlayer
  106. Earth to Earth
  107. Edward the Black Prince
  108. Elizabethan Subjects Available on BBC iPlayer
  109. Endangered Sounds
  110. Escape from the Deep
  111. Esler on Eichmann
  112. Extinct! Available on BBC iPlayer
  113. Falklands 25
  114. Fascinating Deaths Available on BBC iPlayer
  115. Five Meet to Make Up Myths
  116. Football's Freedom Fighters
  117. Forbidden Families Available on BBC iPlayer
  118. Fort Dunlop
  119. Fowles in Dorset
  120. France's Forgotten Concentration Camps Available on BBC iPlayer
  121. Freedom Song
  122. From Abacus to Circle Time: A Short History of the Primary School
  123. From Dots to Downloads
  124. From Dunkirk to D-Day Available on BBC iPlayer
  125. From Frestonia to Belgravia: The History of Squatting Available on BBC iPlayer
  126. Frost Fair
  127. Fu Manchu in Edinburgh
  128. Garibaldi's Grand Scheme
  129. Genius Unrecognised Available on BBC iPlayer
  130. Gerry Anderson on the Hillbilly Trail
  131. Good King George Available on BBC iPlayer
  132. Hearts and Minds Available on BBC iPlayer
  133. Henry Cyril Paget: Lord of the Dance
  134. Hidden Henry Available on BBC iPlayer
  135. Hilda Doolittle
  136. Hippies
  137. Historians in the Tent of the General
  138. Hitler's Muslim Legions
  139. Hits of the Blitz
  140. Honest Doubt: The History of an Epic Struggle
  141. Honest Doubt: The History of an Epic Struggle - Omnibus
  142. How Did We Get Here...? Egypt Available on BBC iPlayer
  143. How Dolly Got Rotherham Reading Available on BBC iPlayer
  144. How New Is the New Philanthropy? Available on BBC iPlayer
  145. How The Mighty Have Fallen
  146. How The Rest Got Home
  147. Human Kind Available on BBC iPlayer
  148. Hunting Haydn's Head Available on BBC iPlayer
  149. Hunting the Beagle
  150. Hunting the Beagle
  151. Hurricane Rash Available on BBC iPlayer
  152. I Got up out of My Seat
  153. I Have Heard The Mermaids Singing
  154. Images That Changed The World Available on BBC iPlayer
  155. In Afghanistan: 30 Years of Conflict and Chaos
  156. In Living Memory Available on BBC iPlayer
  157. In Our Time Available on BBC iPlayer
  158. In Pursuit of the Dalai Lama
  159. In Search of the Wantley Dragon
  160. In War and Paint: The Diary of the Modern Day War Artist
  161. Inside the Academie Francaise Available on BBC iPlayer
  162. Iran: A Revolutionary State Available on BBC iPlayer
  163. It Happened Here
  164. Jon Ronson and the Quest for the Aryan Cow
  165. Khmer Rock and the Killing Fields
  166. King James Bible Available on BBC iPlayer
  167. Kith and Kin
  168. Ladies of the Links Available on BBC iPlayer
  169. Land Lines
  170. Landscape With Canals and Machines: The Legacy of LTC Rolt
  171. Late Nights at the Blue Boar Available on BBC iPlayer
  172. Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country
  173. Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion Available on BBC iPlayer
  174. Learning to Love the Microphone
  175. Let Me Entertain You
  176. Letters to Mary
  177. Lib-Con: New Politics, Old Partnership
  178. London Street Cries
  179. Lord Kitchener's Image
  180. Luting the Past
  181. M Is for Maxwell Knight
  182. Maadai-Kara
  183. Macbeth Remixed
  184. Making History Available on BBC iPlayer
  185. Manchester and Liverpool: Britain's American Civil War
  186. Marshall's Plan
  187. McCarthy: There Were Reds Under the Bed
  188. Mel's Iron Age Holiday Available on BBC iPlayer
  189. Men of Stone
  190. Miss Buttolph's Marvellous Menu Collection
  191. More Than A Game
  192. Mother Was A Blackshirt
  193. My Alter Ego
  194. My Yiddisher Mother Tongue
  195. Nationalise It!
  196. Night Witches
  197. North of the Border - The Rise of Mexican Music
  198. On the Trail of the Templars
  199. On Your Bike
  200. Ossian
  201. Our Daily Bread Available on BBC iPlayer
  202. Paradise Lost: The Story of the Chagos Islands
  203. Parting Shots Available on BBC iPlayer
  204. Petrov's Dilemma
  205. Phil Collins: King of the Wild Frontier
  206. Piano Stool Beethovens
  207. Pistols at Dawn
  208. Poland: Spies, Secrets and Lies
  209. Poppies Are Red, Cornflowers Are Blue
  210. Postcards from the White City
  211. Prescott at Your Service
  212. Protected by Faith
  213. Random Edition Available on BBC iPlayer
  214. Reading between the Lines Available on BBC iPlayer
  215. Repairing Auschwitz
  216. Return to Vukovar Available on BBC iPlayer
  217. Robin Hood and the Cuban Revolutionaries
  218. Rockin' against Racism
  219. Romany Roads
  220. Roots
  221. Royal Racers and Fascinators Available on BBC iPlayer
  222. Russia: The Wild East Available on BBC iPlayer
  223. Secret Museum Available on BBC iPlayer
  224. Secrets of Stonehenge
  225. Shakespeare's Restless World Available on BBC iPlayer
  226. Ship of Dreams
  227. Shooting Soviets: Cartier-Bresson in Moscow
  228. Simonides: Body Bags
  229. Smile
  230. Smiley's People
  231. Snow in Libya
  232. Soft Power Hard News Available on BBC iPlayer
  233. Spectacular Hapsburgs
  234. Sport and the British Available on BBC iPlayer
  235. Sport and the British: Omnibus
  236. Squaring the Triangle
  237. Staging Ireland
  238. Stories from Notting Hill
  239. Tales Before the Stave
  240. The A-Z of Dr Johnson: Words, Words, Words
  241. The Ancient Novel
  242. The Art of Monarchy Available on BBC iPlayer
  243. The Ballets Russes in England
  244. The Battle of Byker
  245. The Blitz
  246. The Blitz
  247. The Blonde Atomic Traitress
  248. The Blood Telegram Available on BBC iPlayer
  249. The Brixmis Story
  250. The Brontes' Piano
  251. The Cases That Changed Our World
  252. The Chaplin Archive Available on BBC iPlayer
  253. The Communist Cosmos Available on BBC iPlayer
  254. The Conchies of Holton-Cum-Beckering
  255. The Counterfeiter's Tale
  256. The Dirty Dozens
  257. The Empire's Last Officers
  258. The Eureka Years Available on BBC iPlayer
  259. The FBI at 100
  260. The Freedom Trail Available on BBC iPlayer
  261. The Frost Years
  262. The Grandfather of Self Help
  263. The Green Children of Woolpit
  264. The Hidden Graves of the Holocaust
  265. The Human Button
  266. The Ice Cream Van Cometh Available on BBC iPlayer
  267. The Invention of Germany Available on BBC iPlayer
  268. The iPod Series
  269. The Jewish Connection
  270. The Keskidee
  271. The Lament of the SS Mendi
  272. The London Nobody Knows Available on BBC iPlayer
  273. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
  274. The Long View Available on BBC iPlayer
  275. The Luddite Lament Available on BBC iPlayer
  276. The Lunatic Line Available on BBC iPlayer
  277. The Making of Modern Medicine Available on BBC iPlayer
  278. The Man Who Sold Peerages
  279. The Menin Gate
  280. The Missing Penny
  281. The Mysterious Commander
  282. The Negro Tragedian
  283. The Nile Available on BBC iPlayer
  284. The Omnipresent Mr Handel
  285. The Oxbridge Murder
  286. The Paris Bouquinistes
  287. The Partisan Coffee House
  288. The People's D-Day Available on BBC iPlayer
  289. The People's Post: A Narrative History of the Post Office Available on BBC iPlayer
  290. The People's Post: A Narrative History of the Post Office
  291. The Ping Pong Diplomats
  292. The Playlist Series
  293. The Preposterous Files
  294. The Price of Peace
  295. The Prime Ministers Available on BBC iPlayer
  296. The Q Camp
  297. The Race To Dover
  298. The Radical and the Emperor
  299. The Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia: The Story of Tito
  300. The Road to Rome
  301. The Roman Way Available on BBC iPlayer
  302. The Romantic Road: On the Trail of the German Philosophers
  303. The Root of All Evil: Christianity and Money
  304. The Roots of the British Legion
  305. The RSC at 50 Available on BBC iPlayer
  306. The Secret Catacombs of Paris Available on BBC iPlayer
  307. The Secret History of Social Networking Available on BBC iPlayer
  308. The Sex Test Available on BBC iPlayer
  309. The Shock of the Knee
  310. The Sinking of the Lancastria
  311. The Six Faces of Henry VIII
  312. The Story of Economics Available on BBC iPlayer
  313. The Strange Case of Oliver Cromwell's Head
  314. The Test of Time
  315. The Thistle and the Rose Available on BBC iPlayer
  316. The Tiger Takes Guard
  317. The Topping Tooters of the Town
  318. The Trouble with Kane Available on BBC iPlayer
  319. The Tudor Tarantino Available on BBC iPlayer
  320. The Unknown Face
  321. The Voices Who Dug Up The Past
  322. The Whites Who Fought Apartheid
  323. The World in a Briefcase
  324. The Wreck of the Alba
  325. The Yellow Fleet
  326. There's More Here Than I Thought
  327. Things We Forgot to Remember Available on BBC iPlayer
  328. This Sceptred Isle: Empire Available on BBC iPlayer
  329. Titanic Town Available on BBC iPlayer
  330. To Strive and Seek
  331. Tracing Your Roots Available on BBC iPlayer
  332. Trade Roots
  333. Triple Espresso, Marinetti and the Futurists
  334. Twice Saved or Twice Stolen?
  335. UK Confidential
  336. UK Confidential
  337. UK Confidential
  338. UK Confidential
  339. Uncool Britannia
  340. Uncovering Pakistan: A Leap Of Faith
  341. Untouchable
  342. Vasily Grossman from the Frontline
  343. Vines on the Front Line
  344. Vital Mental Medicine: Shackleton's Banjo
  345. Voices from the Old Bailey Available on BBC iPlayer
  346. Voices of the Powerless Available on BBC iPlayer
  347. We Elizabethans
  348. We Three Kings
  349. Westminster Follies
  350. What If?
  351. What the Donkey Saw: UA Fanthorpe's Christmas Poems
  352. Whatever Happened To The Working Class
  353. When CB Ruled the Waves
  354. Who's Angry Now?
  355. Why Go?
  356. William Quilliam
  357. Within These Walls
  358. Word 4 Word
  359. Wordsworth's Mysterious Trip to Calais
  360. Wrecked
  361. Written in Stone

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