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The story of the Great War told from a unique new aerial perspective.

2008-2009 - The Last Day of World War One

Michael Palin tells the stories of the last soldiers to die in the First World War.

Archaeologists examine a labyrinth built by British troops beneath the Somme battlefield.

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The Thames: Secret War

Ben Robinson reveals the newly discovered network of trenches on the Hoo peninsula.

Land of the Sabre-tooth

Professor Alice Roberts is on the trail of Ice Age beasts including the sabre-toothed cat.

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Jane, Mary and Elizabeth

How the Tudor queens Jane, Mary and Elizabeth struggled with a crown made for a male head.

Series 2 - William Mudge's Ordnance Survey

Nicholas Crane reproduces the triangulation methods of Mudge's original map of 1809.

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Series 1 - The Last of the Free

Neil Oliver reveals the mystery of how the Gaelic Scottish Kingdom - Alba - was born.

The story of the plan to salvage a survival of World War Two from the English Channel.

Actress Charlotte Ritchie lifts the lid on a typical day for three Regency-era people.

Country Living

How new technologies and production methods changed the face of agriculture in the 1960s.

How Britain is still defined by the battle between metaphorical Cavaliers and Roundheads.

Dam Busters: The Race to Smash the German Dams

A fresh look at the legendary 1943 mission that, extraordinarily, almost never happened.

Dan Snow presents from RAF Scampton, a tribute to WWII's daring Dambusters raid.

Tudors to Stuarts: From Gods to Men

Lucy Worsley explores the medical histories of the Tudor and Stuart dynasties.

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Sacred Women of the Iron Age

Julian Richards returns to the excavation of two very different Iron Age women.

The Power of the Past

Dr Miles reaches the 20th century and a new quest, discovering the life of the common man.

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Hadrian's Wall: Life on the Frontier

Ben Robinson flies over Hadrian's Wall to reveal a once richly populated landscape.

Families of the Stone Age

Archaeologist Julian Richards returns to the excavation of two burials from the Stone Age.

The Search for Civilisation

How discoveries in the 18th century overturned ideas of when and where civilisation began.

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