After the Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror controlled England through a combination of force and personality. When he died, there was a massive power struggle.

Saga Farmann is a knarr - a replica Viking cargo ship. Built in Tønsberg, ships like her were the transit vans - the pick-up trucks - of their age, carrying amber from the Baltic, walrus ivory from the Arctic, timber, dried fish and slaves for trade. Grab a coffee, sit back & relax as I tell you everything you didn’t know, you didn’t know, about the real ships that built the Viking Age.

This is the story of how England made Robert Frost a poet, and how the outbreak of World War I brought him home. The tale of a gamble that changed American literature.

In 1709 the local vicar in Upminster stuck a 5-metre long telescope on his church roof to time cannon fire. The locals thought he was nuts. He wanted to prove Isaac Newton hadn't measured the speed of sound accurately. He was right.

Murder. Theft. Arson, Looting. Explore the 1272 Norwich Priory Riots - when a cathedral prior ordered his congregation to be shot at by mercenaries.

Where were dissidents buried? Many graveyards wouldn't take non-conformists' bodies. At Bunhill Fields (and the surrounding plots) a system was worked out allowing Quakers, Baptists, Methodists, Congregationalists, Presbyterians and others to receive a Christian burial when the authorities turned them away elsewhere. Come with me as I tell you their story.

The first raid as part of an active aerial bombing campaign of Britain was carried on in World War 1.