Tony Robinson's History of Britain

Tony Robinson goes back 500 years, to life under Tudor king, Henry VIII.

Tony travels back to the 1800s, to Victorian times.

Tony Robinson takes a look back 200 years to Georgian times, a period known for its nastiness and cruelty seen in its highwaymen, poachers, and press gangs.

Tony Robinson goes back to the Second World War.

Tony goes back nearly 2000 years to a time when Britain was under the Roman Empire; he tells the story of an African Roman soldier who got posted to empire's most northerly outpost at Hadrian's Wall.

Tony takes goes back to the beginning of last century; It's a time of elegance, innovation, class division and social progress: the Edwardian period, and he begins with two people who travelled on the Titanic.