Taking the ten biggest lies from history and looking at the people who propagated them, social commentator and expert historian Otto English shows how our past has been bent and broken, used and abused over time to fit the ends of some of the world's most powerful people.

The first ever complete oral history of one of the darkest episodes of modern times.

An illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important patrons - the princely rulers of Italy's dynastic states.

The quest to solve a great mystery of the twentieth century: the ultimate fate of Russia's last tsar and his family.

A fascinating and entertaining historical investigation into what makes Ireland so different from its neighbours and why that led to independence.

The crisis of Ulster Unionism and the future of Northern Ireland

A kaleidoscopic look at Paris's ever-changing forms and people