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History on BBC Four
The most compelling stories from world history on BBC Four.
Lucy Worsley takes us behind closed doors at three treasure-filled royal palaces.
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06 Jan 2021
Elizabeth Frood shares the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb as it happened - in colour.
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18 Jun 2020
Ian Hislop's provocative take on 200 years of fake news, its causes and consequences.
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07 Oct 2019
At the beginning of 1945, Berlin remains under the spell of the Nazi promise of salvation.
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An exploration of the first three years of Britain's biggest criminal manhunt.
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26 Mar 2019
Neil Oliver retells the 17th-century conflict between royalist clans and parliamentarians.
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12 Aug 2020
Tracing Mrs Thatcher’s startling rise to power and her Iron Lady image in the 1970s.
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How the changing technology of writing has shaped the course of world history.
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28 Sep 2020
Ben Robinson unlocks the ancient roots of the Northumberland village of Warkworth.
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Stella Rimington explores our love-hate relationship with Russia over the past 150 years.
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21 Nov 2007
An exploration of Queen Victoria's tempestuous relationship with Prince Albert.
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01 Jan 2013
Christmas, 1648. Charles I is under arrest, and Parliament plots to try him for treason.
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17 Dec 2019
The story of Britain during World War II, told through the cine films of ordinary people.
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05 Sep 2019
How the early 80s saw new forces of choice and consumerism radically reshape British life.
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04 Aug 2016
How the castle became a weapon with which unruly barons challenged the Crown.
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04 Dec 2014
Documentary telling the story of the Berlin Wall and its impact on Berliners' lives.
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07 Nov 2009
A look at what life was like for Birmingham’s Caribbean community in the postwar years.
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10 Dec 2018
Documentary about the collaboration between Winston Churchill and Alexander Korda.
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25 Sep 2019
Documentary discovering how our medieval forebears built the wonders of their world.
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21 Apr 2008
The story of a pioneering black British footballer who died heroically in WWI.
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17 Apr 2010
The story of the 1773 highland migrants who left Scotland to settle in Nova Scotia.
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28 Jun 2017
How the great icons of British Gothic architecture were all created by one family.
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The story of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin and the 245 days that brought them to supreme power
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10 Oct 2017
How America's three great mountain ranges challenged the westward push of the pioneers.
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22 May 2014