Season 1
- 1The Wars of the Roses26 Jan 2017
- 2The Glorious Revolution2 Feb 2017
- 3The Jewel in the Crown9 Feb 2017
Lucy Worsley explores how the history of three of Britain's founding national events are in fact carefully crafted mythologies.The Wars of the Roses, the Glorious Revolution and the creation of the British Raj are all revealed as carefully-constructed narratives created by the victors at the time and embellished by historians, novelists and film-makers ever since.Throughout the series, Lucy travels across Britain, the Netherlands and India to the palaces, battlefields and bed chambers where the…