(Part 2/2) On Easter Monday in 1916, Irish rebels read a proclamation of independence that sparked a week-long battle with... more

***This episode contains a description of mass murder***As the Black Death moved across Europe, something darker and more insidious spread... more

(Part 1/2) With Britain engaged in the First World War in Europe, Irish rebels sensed an opportunity.Irish revolutions had fought... more

It was a plague like no other. It provoked strange cures like no other. Anthony Delaney takes Maddy Pelling in... more

(Part 2/2) Joan of Arc, mystic leader of a French army, was captured and sold to the English who tried... more

Around 50% of everyone in Europe died during the Black Death. It's very hard to make sense of that. What... more

(Part 1/2) So many things make Joan of Arc iconic. The fearless, crossdressing warrior saint who dies a martyr's death.... more

The myth goes thus: the Black Death reached Christendom at the Siege of Caffa when Mongols catapulted diseased bodies over... more

During the victory celebrations of World War One, a rising star is found dead in her bed after a suspected... more

Why did two servants living in Plymouth, England, poison their whole household in 1675? How did they sneak arsenic into... more