History
History
Victorians: The life of Mary Seacole
The life and adventures of Mary Seacole told in three short video episodes.
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell tells the story of his life and describes how he invented the telephone.
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale tells the story of her life and how she grew up to become a nurse.
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman explains how she escaped slavery and then helped others to do so.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel shares how he became an engineer and tunnelled through Box Hill.
Mary Anning
Mary Anning describes how her astonishing fossil finds changed scientific thinking.
Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner tells the story of his life and the vaccination against smallpox.
Elizabeth Fry
Elizabeth Fry describes how she reformed life for prisoners and their families in prison.
Grace Darling
Grace Darling describes the night she and her father rowed out in a boat to save sailors.
Rosa Parks
How Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat changed the rules of American society.
Thomas Barnardo
Thomas Barnardo tells the story of setting up his first home for London's street children.
Introducing Shakespeare
Boudica
Henry VIII and Elizabeth I
Find out about the lives of two extraordinary Tudor monarchs: Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.
Samuel Pepys and The Great Fire of London
Stephenson, Anning, Brunel and Queen Victoria
Celebrating famous Victorians: the Stephensons, Brunel, Mary Anning and Queen Victoria herself.
