In the second half of the 18th century Scotland was transformed from a poor northern backwater with an image problem into one of the richest nations on Earth.
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This episode of the documentary series examines Berlin’s architecture - always looking to the future, but also bearing testimony to the city's chequered past.
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On a spectacular journey through Renaissance Italy, Andrew Graham-Dixon explores the extraordinary achievement of the chronicler of the Italian Renaissance, Giorgio Vasari.
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Diarmaid MacCulloch explores Eastern Orthodox Christianity’s fight for survival, having withstood threats from Islam, Catholicism and communism.
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The second programme in the series examines the deliberations of the three-man Boundary Commission, appointed to redraw the highly contentious border in 1924.
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A landmark documentary series on the dramatic history of the Irish border. Examining the defining events that led to the creation of the border in 1920.
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Andrew Graham-Dixon reveals how the Medici family transformed Florence through sculpture, painting and architecture and created a world where masterpieces fetch millions today.
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Reality series with families facing life in 1944. The women charm the butcher for some black market meat, while the men resolve their rivalries through a game of football.
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Andrew Graham-Dixon continues his look at the work of the chronicler of the Italian Renaissance, Giorgio Vasari, and views some of the great masterpieces of Vasari’s golden age.
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Andrew Marr charts the events that shaped Britain. In the 1920s, Imperial Britannia slid from view and Britain saw a housing boom and the birth of radio broadcasting.
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Bitterly divided by politics and religion for centuries, this is the infamous story of how Scotland and England came together in 1707 to form Great Britain.
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Series using film and photography to examine the 1930s looks at Harry Wright’s colour films of the indigenous peoples of Africa and Central America.
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