In October 1799, 130 Napoleonic French and Dutch prisoners of war were locked in a Norfolk church bell tower for the night. One man managed to escape - sparking a man hunt! Before Waterloo & Austerlitz, this is the story of Jean de Narde — a French petty officer, 28 years old, son of a notary from St. Malo — and the sixty years of shame that followed his death in an East Dereham churchyard.
Following William the Conqueror's death in 1087, England underwent a series of power struggles as the Duke of Normandy was a different person to the King of England. This situation caused The Norman War of the Brothers, spanning from 1087 to 1106.
n 1972, a British civil servant finished writing a story he'd been telling his daughters on long car journeys. It was about rabbits. Trouble was... it also discussed genocide, torture, vivisection and secret police.
In 1190, the Archbishop of Canterbury lost a fight with the Pope — and a tiny Kent village accidentally inherited some of the finest Romanesque stonework in England.
Join us for the story of Britain's second Prime Minister: the man who had to ask the man he was replacing to do the job for him.
Join us for the story of Britain's second Prime Minister: the man who had to ask the man he was replacing to do the job for him.
Join us for the story of Britain's second Prime Minister: the man who had to ask the man he was replacing to do the job for him.
Exploring a 113-year-old case - where a future Chairman of the Labour Party, and mentor to both JFK & Pierre Trudeau, blew up the men’s toilets at Oxted Station in Surrey, in support of the Suffragette movement.
On 4th April 1913, Edwin Mighell arrived for his shift. He found the remnants of a rush basket containing a petrol can, an alarm clock, and what appeared to have been gunpowder.
Exploring a 113-year-old case - where a future Chairman of the Labour Party, and mentor to both JFK & Pierre Trudeau, blew up the men’s toilets at Oxted Station in Surrey, in support of the Suffragette movement.
On 4th April 1913, Edwin Mighell arrived for his shift. He found the remnants of a rush basket containing a petrol can, an alarm clock, and what appeared to have been gunpowder.