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Weekend Viewing: The First Georgians – The German Kings Who Made Britain by...
In 1714, to prevent the crown falling into the hands of a Catholic, Britain shipped in a ready-made royal family from the small German state of Hanover. To understand this risky experiment, presenter...
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Weekend Viewing: The First Georgians Episode 2 – The German Kings Who Made...
Editor’s Note: This is the second episode of this series, we posted the first episode of this series last week – watch it here. Lucy Worsley’s inside story of Britain’s imported German dynasty, made...
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Holiday Viewing: The Victοrians –Ηοme Sweet Ηοme – Jeremy Paxman – History...
Jeremy Paxman, presenter of the BBC’s current affairs program Newsnight examines the life and times of the Victorian era. In the first program he focuses on the styles of Victorian artists and their...
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Weekend Viewing: The First Georgians The German Kings Who Made Britain –...
This is the third and final episode in this series about Britain’s Hanoverian Kings. If you haven’t seen the other episodes, watch them here. Lucy Worsley’s inside story of Britain’s imported German...
View ArticleWeekend Viewing: A Very British Airline – Behind the Scenes Look at British...
As fans of British Airways, we’re in love with this new documentary series airing in the UK about the airline. British Airways is one of the UK’s most visible brands, selling Britishness as a mark of...
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Weekend Viewing: PQ17 An Arctic World War II Convoy Disaster Presented by...
Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson tells the dramatic story of the Arctic convoys of the Second World War, from Russia to the freezing Arctic Ocean. Accompanied by moving first hand testimony from the...
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Weekend Viewing: A Very British Airline – Episode 2 – JFK Terminal Spotlight,...
For 50 years London to New York has been the most glamorous and profitable route in BA’s long-haul network. This was the route made famous by Concorde, and even today BA’s JFK terminal caters for more...
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Weekend Viewing: The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England – Episode 1
Ian Mortimer transports viewers back to Elizabethan England and reveals, in vivid detail, a living, breathing Tudor world. Viewers learn how ordinary Tudor housewives turned plants into medicine, how...
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Weekend Viewing: A Very British Airline – Episode 3 – Final Episode – One...
In the final episode of the BBC’s behind the scenes look at British Airways, we go into the company’s main control room with operations manager, and rugby enthusiast, Kevin McKenzie. He reveals how...
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Weekend Viewing: The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England – Part 2 –...
Dr Ian Mortimer introduces you to the world of the Elizabethan rich and privileged. Money alone is not enough to allow you to blend in with the royal court. There is much to learn about how the...
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Weekend Viewing: Harlots, Housewives and Heroines – A 17th Century History...
The years after the Civil War and the Restoration of Charles II marked the end of the medieval and the beginning of the modern age. These were exciting times for women and some rose to prominence...
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Weekend Viewing: Harlots, Housewives And Heroines – A 17th Century History...
Continuing our posting of the series Harlots, Housewives and Heroines, here is episode two. You can watch episode one here. Lucy Worsley explores the ordinary as well as the extraordinary lives of...
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Weekend Viewing: Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for...
Lucy Worsley explores the lives of some of the most remarkable women of the age, including writers, actresses, travellers and scientists. Against a backdrop of religious and political turmoil, the...
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Weekend Viewing: Churchill’s Secret Bunkers Full Documentary
Check out this fascinating documentary about the British government’s secret bunkers used to help win World War II. In London during WWII, Winston Churchill reluctantly agreed to the construction of...
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Weekend Viewing: BBC Empire Episode 2 – Making Ourselves at Home Documentary...
Jeremy Paxman traces the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known: the British Empire. He continues his personal account of Britain’s empire by looking at how traders, conquerors and...
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Weekend Viewing: BBC Empire – Playing the Game – Documentary Jeremy Paxman
Jeremy Paxman traces the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known: the British Empire. He continues his personal account of Britain’s Empire by tracing the growth of a peculiarly British...
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Weekend Viewing: BBC Documentary – The Adventure of English: Birth of a Language
The Adventure of English is a British television series (ITV) on the history of the English language presented by Melvyn Bragg as well as a companion book, also written by Bragg. The series ran in...
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Weekend Viewing: BBC Empire – Episode 4 – Making a Fortune – Jeremy Paxman
Jeremy Paxman continues his personal account of Britain’s empire, looking at how the empire began as a pirates’ treasure hunt, grew into an informal empire based on trade and developed into a global...
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Holiday Viewing: Jane Austen – Having a Pride and Prejudice Style Ball – BBC...
Documentary celebrating the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice, revealing the hidden world behind one of the greatest love stories of all time by restaging a Regency ball at Chawton House, the...
View ArticleWeekend Viewing: BBC Empire – Episode 5 – Final Episode – Doing Good – Jeremy...
In the final part of his personal account of Britain’s empire, Jeremy Paxman tells the extraordinary story of how a desire for conquest became a mission to improve the rest of mankind, especially in...
View ArticleWeekend Viewing: Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years, 1929-39 – BBC...
This old BBC Documentary is an excellent exploration of Winston Churchill’s ‘Wilderness Years’ – the decade from 1929-1939 where he was a political pariah, banging on about the threat of Hitler only...
View ArticleWeekend Viewing: Murder on the Victorian Railway – Fascinating Documentary...
London 1864. On a Hackney-bound train, a guard discovers blood in a first class carriage – and a body on the railway embankment. For the first time, a murder has taken place on Britain’s railways....
View ArticleWeekend Viewing: The Mystery of Agatha Christie with David Suchet – Click to...
David Suchet, TV’s Poirot, has spent more of his life acting out the plots and dramas created by Agatha Christie than anyone else in the world. He is currently donning the spats and moustaches to...
View ArticleWeekend Viewing: Secrets of Chatsworth – The Great House in Derbyshire –...
In its 500-year history, Chatsworth has been home to some notable inhabitants, among them the 5th Duke of Devonshire, his wife, Lady Georgiana Spencer, and Lady Elizabeth Foster, who lived together in...
View ArticleWeekend Viewing: Know Your Ally – Britain US Propaganda Documentary on the...
This WW2 film was prepared by U.S. to help the American people to know and understand one of they allies: Britain. The film shows us the desperate struggle of the British People against the Nazi...
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