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