December 30, 1974 • 50m
43 AD: Lucius is one of several Roman spies sent into the offshore island of Pritan, quietly to study the ground before plans for ...Read more
January 6, 1975 • 50m
400 AD: Among the splendours of his palace at Eboricum (York), Roman British governor Tiberius Claudius broods on what he believes...Read more
January 13, 1975 • 49m
654 AD: Two powerful adversaries face each other - Penda, pagan king of Mercia, and Oswy, Christian king of Northumbria.
January 20, 1975 • 54m
878 AD: King Alfred has suffered another defeat from the Danes and escapes through the Athelrey swamps to the safety of Odda's Hal...Read more
January 27, 1975 • 53m
1042: Godwin, Earl of Wessex, summons Edward from out of his exile in Normandy to wear the Crown of England. But the apparent secu...Read more
February 3, 1975 • 53m
1066-1070: Forest laws bring about a climax between the Saxons and the Normans.
February 10, 1975 • 53m
1160: In Norman England a man could will his movables to his kin and friends but only the next heir could inherit his land paying ...Read more
February 17, 1975 • 53m
1191: King John is brought to his knees and signs the Magna Carta.
February 24, 1975 • 53m
1265: A runaway peasant accidentally witnesses a meeting between King Henry III and his chief Baron Simon de Montfort. Their argum...Read more
March 3, 1975 • 53m
March 1296: The story of William Wallace, a rough Lanarkshire knight who strikes a blow for Scottish liberty by destroying the tow...Read more
March 10, 1975 • 53m
1381: Revolt in East Anglia when the peasants are pressed beyond endurance by taxes and misgovernment by inexperienced King Richar...Read more
March 17, 1975 • 53m
1440: When Henry V died, the feudal families of England began to prey upon each other. Royal upstarts succeeded one another until ...Read more
March 24, 1975 • 51m
1538: Hugh Goodrest, a Warwickshire Lawyer, returns to his home town of Hales Owen to find the nearby Abbey and its inmates under ...Read more
March 31, 1975 • 53m
1603-1618: Sir Walter Raleigh is tried on trumped-up charges of treason and imprisoned in the Tower. For 13 years he languishes in...Read more
April 7, 1975 • 51m
1610: A Puritan family in Nottinghamshire, hounded by King James I for their opposition to Anglican orthodoxy, go into unhappy exi...Read more
April 14, 1975 • 53m
January 1640: King Charles I rallies his troops to fight the Roundheads and loses his head and kingdom for the trouble.
April 21, 1975 • 53m
Burford, 15 May 1649: The Puritan revolution has reached its climax. The soldiers' democracy is over and Cromwell takes his revenge.
April 28, 1975 • 49m
1665: The Royalists return. But for John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, the Restoration means plague and despair.
May 5, 1975 • 51m
1689: The Protestant settlement in Ulster pre-empts King William's offensive against the Irish Jacobites. In Londonderry the appre...Read more
May 12, 1975 • 53m
1720: Tom Mackenzie, a confidence trickster from Scotland, steals a certificate for £100 worth of South Sea Company stock. He uses...Read more
May 19, 1975 • 52m
1772: The MacAmney family are evicted from their highland homestead by the landlord to make way for sheep. Selling everything they...Read more
May 26, 1975 • 53m
1775: An American judge who has settled in London reconstructs in an interview with a journalist his dispute with the radical Sam ...Read more
June 2, 1975 • 52m
1781: Jack Gable apprehensively embarks on a new career as a clerk with the East India Company in Bengal. Under aegis of the livel...Read more
June 9, 1975 • 53m
1797: The men of an ill-governed Royal Navy refuse to put their ships to sea. Aaron Graham, a London magistrate, is sent to invest...Read more
June 16, 1975 • 50m
1834: The Tolpuddle Martyrs are sent to Australia where a Tasmanian settler tries to get their service on his estates.
June 23, 1975 • 52m
1819-1837: The story of the Cato Street Conspiracy, the plot of a radical political group to assassinate two Government ministers ...Read more