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Shows how houses, even houses in ruins, can reveal a suprising amount about the political power and ambition of their builders. Examines the ruins of the Earl of Strafford’s enoumous house, Jigginstown in...
The provision of libraries and university reform was the product of enlightened patronage. This programme looks at the patronage of Thomas Bodley and Archbishop Laud at Oxford, Cardinal Mazarin in Paris and...
In towns today there is a surviving mass of evidence for changes and contrasts in 17th-century society. This programme contrasts Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire with the new 17th-centruy town in...
Set within a harness racing fraternity, the video explores the conflict between urban and rural values through the medium of an evolving relationship between father and son.
Looks at the north of England, once described as Britain’s ‘anvil’ and ‘workshop’ in heavy industries such as coalmining, shipbuilding, textiles and steel. Now these great creators of wealth have...
Looks at buildings and paintings of 18th-century Scotland and discusses them in the context of the society, politics and intellectual currents of the time, particularly in relation to the Enlightenment....
Looks at the British Library’s two surviving copies of Magna Carta, as well as other medieval documents and footage of the places central to the story of Magna Carta, including Canterbury, Dover castle,...
Examines how England and Englishness were portrayed in the 1930s in poetry, advertisements, photographs and film. W H Auden, for example, drew attention to the discrepancy between the way ordinary English...
Examines ways in which life has changed in the United Kingdom in the years since the Second World War. Looks at the changes at work and in the home and at how some attitudes have changed through that period....
Shows the range of soils found in one area of northern England and explains reasons for their formation. Shows upland soil types ranging from brown earths and podzols to gley and peat soils in their...
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