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Tony Robinson’s History of Britain – S1, Ep4 – The Second World War

The Second World War Bethnal Green station was hit during the Blitz. Grocer’s daughter Eileen worked with Princess Elizabeth in[…]

The Georgians Tony travels back to the 1800s, meeting a 13-year-old girl who worked 14-hour shifts in a match factory,[…]

The Tudors How a knacker became an executioner, and how clothes were made. Finding Henry’s sunken ship the Mary Rose.[…]

Blitz Richard Holmes visits the sites that encapsulate the memory of a night of the Blitz.

Dunkirk Walking the French beaches from which thousands of British troops escaped capture.

Bosworth Professor Richard Holmes visits the scene of Henry Tudor’s victory over King Richard III.

Hastings Richard Holmes visits the sites that encapsulate the memory of a night of the Blitz.

Goodwood Following the tanks of the 1944 British armoured break-out from the Normandy bridgehead.

A Soldier of the Unknown War The Unknown War was an Allied war. For the Russians, the victory had a[…]

The Balkans to Vienna After the Soviets won back their own country, they pushed westward to release Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary,[…]