(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

Untimely deaths followed the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter. Coincidence or ancient curse? When the tomb of King... more

From ruthless schemer to pragmatic hero - who is the real Thomas Cromwell? And how did he meet his end?... more

(Part 2/2) On the 13 February 1692, Scottish government troops slaughtered between 30-40 members of Clan MacDonald in their home... more

(2/2) A boy King, a rebel army, and the first ever execution at Tower Hill. Maddy Pelling tells Anthony Delaney... more

On the 13 February 1692, Scottish government troops slaughtered between 30-40 members of Clan MacDonald in their home in Glencoe,... more

1381, England, the world turned upside down as the commoners rise up and dismantle the mechanisms of power. They're angry... more

(2/2) We join the captive Romanovs as they are moved from The Alexander Palace to Siberia and then to Ekaterinburg,... more

It's a medical-history-mystery: the Sweating Sickness. Things get clammy as Anthony Delaney and Maddy Pelling ask what was this deadly... more

(1/2) As Russia collapses, the Romanovs find themselves trapped by delusions and failed ideals; by revolution and Russian geography. Helen... more

Mary Mallon aka "Typhoid Mary" is a macabre figure who spread disease and death everywhere she went. But there's a... more

(2/2) What does the resurrection of a hanged woman have to do with the Devil? Did the Enlightenment kill Old... more

You could smell Henry VIII's rotting legs from three rooms by the end. He was in constant pain, barely able... more

(1/2) How has the devil been depicted through history? What are his origins? And why should he be portrayed as... more

(2/2) As the Great Fire of London worsens mob rule begins to appear and a hunt for a scapegoat takes... more

The moment Mary Queen of Scots set foot in England, she became Elizabeth I's prisoner. Mary was fleeing from war... more

(1/2) London's Burning! London's Burning! Disaster strikes in 1666 as the dense, mostly wooden, city of London begins to burn.... more

Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic, survived multiple assassination attempts on the same night. He was poisoned, he was shot, he was... more

What lurks beneath the dark waters of Loch Ness? The legendary monster? A piece of Celtic folklore? A warning of... more

In 1872 the ghost ship Mary Celeste is found sailing across the Atlantic without a single crew member left on... more

The life of Joseph Merrick, the man they dared to call "The Elephant Man", will fill you with pain and... more

(2/2) We find out what life inside the Foundling Hospital was like as we complete the heartbreaking and heartwarming history... more

Today Anthony and Maddy look into the heartbreaking history of the Foundling Hospital, now London’s saddest museum. Starting in the 18th... more

Can we see beyond the veil, glimpse the future before it arrives? John Barker, a psychiatrist with a fascination for... more

(Part 2/2) Anthony returns to his hometown of Kilkenny to conclude the tale of the first person to be executed... more

Ghost hunting couple Ed and Lorraine Warren transformed twentieth century America into an enchanted land dotted with haunted houses, cursed... more

(Part 1/2) 700 years ago, in 1324, the first person to be executed for witchcraft in Ireland died in Kilkenny.... more

112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville (Long Island) is arguably the most haunted house in America. Inside its walls demonic forces... more

(Part 2/2) They could've run, but they stayed. In 1665 plague arrived in the idyllic English village of Eyam. What... more

(Part 1/2) They could've run, but they stayed. In 1665 plague arrived in the idyllic English village of Eyam. What... more

Queen Victoria was synonymous with grief and the Victorian cult of death. Yet her own funeral wasn't that at all.... more

The violent death of Captain James Cook, British explorer, on a Hawaiian beach in 1779 has become the stuff of... more