Historian David Olusoga uncovers fresh insights into the unique lives of six icons, revealing the intimate secrets hidden in the legal artefacts left after their deaths. The wills of Florence Nightingale, Charles Dickens and Beatrix Potter are reevaluated; their successes, failures and relationships are laid bare in their own words, as they made decisions about their most treasured possessions.
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Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley
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I Was There: The Great War Interviews
In the early 1960s, 280 eyewitnesses of the First World War were interviewed for the series, The Great War. Using never-before-seen footage from these interviews, this film illuminates the poignant human experience of the war, through the eyes of those who survived it.
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Genghis Khan
Always strike first and always take revenge. Genghis Khan learnt these lessons the hard way during a violent childhood. Son of a murdered father, Genghis grew up in the unforgiving environment of the Mongolian Steppe. But how did an outcast, raised in poverty, come to be the great Khan? Combining...
