https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/channel/32/absolute-history/ Welcome to Absolute History - the home of fun, shocking and curious tales from throughout history. From Tony Robinson's Worst Jobs in History to Suzannah Lipscomb's Hidden Killers, join us to learn about our history the entertaining way. Subscribe to... en Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:14:26 +0200 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:14:26 +0200 HedexTV - Online Television and VOD Platform - RSS Generator https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3107/christmas-traditions-started-by-queen-victoria-victorian-farm-christmas-3-3-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3107/christmas-traditions-started-by-queen-victoria-victorian-farm-christmas-3-3-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Ruth Goodman and food historian Ivan Day try their hand at making a Christmas pudding using the same methods as Bob Cratchit's wife in A Christmas Carol. Meanwhile, Alex and Peter light the forge for the first time to re-shoe the farm workhorse Clumpe...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3026/is-there-truth-behind-the-myths-of-vampires-the-search-for-dracula-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3026/is-there-truth-behind-the-myths-of-vampires-the-search-for-dracula-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
In an age of science, one tale of the supernatural continues to seduce us: the legend of the vampire. Embodied in the persona of Count Dracula, this pale, elegant aristocrat lusts for blood, making him at once repulsive… and irresistible. By day, he hi...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3412/was-robin-hood-a-real-person-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3412/was-robin-hood-a-real-person-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Tony Robinson sets out to sift the fact from the fiction on whether Robin Hood, the legendary dispossessed nobleman hiding out in Sherwood Forest did actually exist.Content licensed from Digital Rights Group (DRG). Any queries, please contact us at: ow...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3331/the-truth-behind-the-vampire-myth-the-island-of-vampires-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3331/the-truth-behind-the-vampire-myth-the-island-of-vampires-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
The legend of blood sucking vampires has captured peoples’ imagination for generations. A crack team of archaeologists and forensic scientists have uncovered hard evidence for the existence of the legend. We follow them on their investigative trail to ...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3249/clinton-s-impeachment-101-events-that-made-the-20th-century-part-1-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3249/clinton-s-impeachment-101-events-that-made-the-20th-century-part-1-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
There have been many events across the centuries that have played a transformative role in shaping life as we know it now. Join us for another episode, where we take a look at some of these momentous events from the 20th century and how it helped shape...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3169/the-first-black-woman-in-the-us-congress-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3169/the-first-black-woman-in-the-us-congress-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Being the first black woman to serve on Congress would be a significant enough accomplishment for a lifetime, but it wasn’t good enough for Shirley Chisholm. Three years after she arrived in Washington, D.C., Chisholm became the first woman to run for ...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3042/why-the-wicker-man-was-such-a-large-part-of-iron-age-time-crashers-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3042/why-the-wicker-man-was-such-a-large-part-of-iron-age-time-crashers-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
The final setting is an Iron age village in A.D, 43 and, whilst there are no bosses, life is certainly primitive as the group must make bread, start a fire from scratch and prepare chickens and a deer, as well as constructing a wicker man to burn at th...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3428/why-making-purple-dye-was-absolutely-revolting-worst-jobs-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3428/why-making-purple-dye-was-absolutely-revolting-worst-jobs-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Tony Robinson continues his look at The Worst Jobs in History with a rundown on the worst royal jobs. As Tony takes on the work traditionally done at court we learn of the miserable lot of food tasters, whipping boys, falconers, and laundry women who b...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3347/how-to-cook-like-a-tudor-a-cook-back-in-time-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3347/how-to-cook-like-a-tudor-a-cook-back-in-time-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Jan Leeming show us what Tudor cooking was really like.Content licensed from ITV Global. Any queries, please contact us at: owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3265/the-secret-pioneer-of-witchcraft-in-britain-wicca-man-gerald-gardner-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3265/the-secret-pioneer-of-witchcraft-in-britain-wicca-man-gerald-gardner-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
The extraordinary story of one of Britain's fastest-growing religious groups Wicca, and its eccentric creator - an Englishman called Gerald Gardner.The modern pagan witchcraft of Wicca was born in 1930s Britain in a nudist colony in Dorset. Wicca rapi...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3185/why-harvesting-was-so-important-during-the-war-wartime-farm-ep8-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3185/why-harvesting-was-so-important-during-the-war-wartime-farm-ep8-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
The team face the conditions of 1945 and prepare to tackle the most crucial event of their farming year: harvesting the wheat crop. They grapple with weeds, one of the wettest summers in memory and wartime machinery to bring the crop home, but take a g...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3059/the-dark-story-of-pied-piper-of-hamelin-the-missing-children-myths-monsters-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3059/the-dark-story-of-pied-piper-of-hamelin-the-missing-children-myths-monsters-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
How does a community form? How does it survive and adapt to change? The role myths and legends have played in establishing the rules of society and the punishments for those who break them.]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/2978/how-dresses-were-made-in-the-15th-century-a-stitch-in-time-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/2978/how-dresses-were-made-in-the-15th-century-a-stitch-in-time-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Fusing biography, art and the history of fashion, Amber Butchart explores the lives of historical figures through the clothes they wore. In this edition of the show Amber and the team attempt to recreate the clothes worn in one of the most studied and ...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3363/the-story-of-prince-william-and-prince-harry-s-childhood-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3363/the-story-of-prince-william-and-prince-harry-s-childhood-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
What was the childhood of the two Princes really like?Content licensed from Kew Media. Any queries, please contact us at: owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3281/the-astonishing-life-of-china-s-tyrant-empress-wu-zetian-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3281/the-astonishing-life-of-china-s-tyrant-empress-wu-zetian-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Since her death 1300 years ago, Wu Zetian has been remembered as a callous tyrant, who brought calamity to China. But now, extraordinary new discoveries are revealing a very different picture of her reign.As archaeologists investigate hidden tombs, spe...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3201/the-ministry-of-information-wartime-farm-ep4-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3201/the-ministry-of-information-wartime-farm-ep4-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Ruth, Peter and Alex face a Second World War-style government inspection, meeting an expert who tells them to grow and to get their milking operation up and running.In the process they confront the wave of mechanisation that government regulation broug...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3121/finding-an-ancient-chamber-under-a-garden-in-cornwall-time-team-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3121/finding-an-ancient-chamber-under-a-garden-in-cornwall-time-team-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
The team try to discover what a 2000-year-old underground chamber beneath a garden was used for. Dowser Hamish Miller shows the extent of the fogou beneath the lawn, and Tony tries his hand at dowsing. But Mick is skeptical, preferring to rely on the g...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3075/why-medieval-britain-was-so-terrified-of-witchcraft-gods-monsters-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3075/why-medieval-britain-was-so-terrified-of-witchcraft-gods-monsters-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Tony Robinson recreates the evil spells and dark rituals of medieval witchcraft. He learns how to identify, arrest and torture a witch in his quest to discover why, in the 16th and 17th centuries, our ancestors were so terrified of black magic that the...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/2994/victorian-seaside-holidays-how-the-victorians-built-britain-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/2994/victorian-seaside-holidays-how-the-victorians-built-britain-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
In Blackpool, Michael Buerk discovers how the seaside mini-break was transformed from a perk of the wealthy to a British institution.]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3380/what-did-astronauts-do-on-the-moon-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3380/what-did-astronauts-do-on-the-moon-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Landing on the moon was an amazing feat for mankind, but to make the most of the trip, astronauts had to conduct scientific research so that we could learn from the experience.]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3298/pilgrimage-with-simon-reeve-jerusalem-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3298/pilgrimage-with-simon-reeve-jerusalem-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Simon Reeve begins in Istanbul, Turkey, a busy medieval staging post for pilgrims to the Holy Land. Before falling to the Ottoman Empire, it was the centre of Roman Christianity under Emperor Constantine. His mother Helena, arguably the first pilgrim t...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3217/a-speech-that-changed-the-world-101-events-that-made-the-20th-century-part-8-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3217/a-speech-that-changed-the-world-101-events-that-made-the-20th-century-part-8-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Which 10 events will stay in our minds and hearts as those that marked history? Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream Speech influenced civil rights laws, apartheid ended in South Africa, a bomb dropped in Hiroshima, and man landed on the moon.Content l...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3137/the-abandoned-castle-in-sunderland-time-estate-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3137/the-abandoned-castle-in-sunderland-time-estate-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
This episode takes an in-depth look at archaeology as it happens in a derelict medieval castle stranded in the middle of a Sunderland housing estate.Content licensed from DRG to Little Dot Studios.Any queries, please contact us at: owned-enquiries@litt...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3091/the-largest-traveling-vintage-funfair-in-the-world-salvage-hunters-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3091/the-largest-traveling-vintage-funfair-in-the-world-salvage-hunters-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
With sales manager Mark along for his first-ever buying expedition, Drew gets unprecedented access to the largest traveling vintage funfair in the world. The guys visit a Windsor pub where everything is for sale. Featuring British kitsch at its finest,...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3010/how-to-make-a-proper-victorian-era-salad-royal-upstairs-downstairs-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3010/how-to-make-a-proper-victorian-era-salad-royal-upstairs-downstairs-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Presenters Rosemary Shrager and Tim Wonnacott visit Castle Howard in Yorkshire to follow in the footsteps of Queen Victoria and her tour of the country visiting the great and the good. Tim talks to the current Earl of Carlisle, Simon Howard, who reveal...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3396/the-vicious-victorian-railway-jobs-worst-jobs-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3396/the-vicious-victorian-railway-jobs-worst-jobs-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Tony finds out just how horrible Victorian railway jobs really were.Content licensed from Spire. Any queries, please contact us at: owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.comProduced by Spire]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3314/the-sealed-coffin-mummy-forensics-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3314/the-sealed-coffin-mummy-forensics-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Dr. Joann Fletcher and her team investigate a female mummy inside a sealed Egyptian coffin.Content licensed from Eastwest Documentaries to Little Dot Studios. Any queries, please contact us at: owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3233/the-assassination-of-john-lennon-101-events-that-made-the-20th-century-part-5-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3233/the-assassination-of-john-lennon-101-events-that-made-the-20th-century-part-5-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Counting down from 49 to 34, this episode features the Treaty of Versailles in the hopes of bringing peace to the world, the Watergate political scandal, the downfall of the Soviet Union, and the assassination of John Lennon.There have been many events...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3153/the-true-story-of-samson-and-delilah-the-naked-archaeologist-ep1-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3153/the-true-story-of-samson-and-delilah-the-naked-archaeologist-ep1-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Calling someone a Philistine is the ultimate insult - but archaeology turns the insult into a compliment. We examine the tribe of Delilah and Goliath, their fertility cults and a temple like the one Samson may have destroyed with his bare hands.Content...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3292/the-last-of-the-plantagenets-richard-iii-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3292/the-last-of-the-plantagenets-richard-iii-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
This is a story of conspiracy and betrayal, of a lust for power and a lost allegiance; the story of the man who killed King Richard III. In this documentary we set out to prove that the Welshman Sir Rhys ap Thomas, master of Carew Castle in Pembrokeshi...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3212/how-the-edwardians-made-cider-from-their-apple-trees-edwardian-farm-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3212/how-the-edwardians-made-cider-from-their-apple-trees-edwardian-farm-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn recreate the running of a farm as it would've been in the Edwardian era. Alex and Peter milk goats and train the ploughhorses. They begin a market garden of strawberries. Ruth pic...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3132/the-unique-bronze-age-mines-found-in-wales-extreme-archaeology-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3132/the-unique-bronze-age-mines-found-in-wales-extreme-archaeology-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
The team travels to Parys Mountain on the island of Anglesey. They investigate if a connection between two bronze aged copper mines can be found. Their efforts will be complicated by the crumbling nature of the workings. Only recently pumped dry the ex...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3086/the-bizarre-mummy-cat-found-in-a-junk-shop-salvage-hunters-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3086/the-bizarre-mummy-cat-found-in-a-junk-shop-salvage-hunters-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
With non-stop sales at the shop, Drew hits the road with Julian to replenish his stock. A Devon salvage yard is a honey pot of funky pieces and period furniture but the owner's sales philosophy proves to be a nightmare. The guys visit Europe's larges...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3005/the-pagan-kingdoms-built-by-viking-clans-vikings-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3005/the-pagan-kingdoms-built-by-viking-clans-vikings-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
The Viking era is the last of the great periods of barbarian attacks. It left Europe transformed, ripe for the rise of the new nations that marked the middle ages. Norsemen, another word for Vikings, conquered a quarter of France, half of England and a...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3391/the-mystery-of-tutankhamun-s-treasure-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3391/the-mystery-of-tutankhamun-s-treasure-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Archaeologists have made an astonishing claim that could change our understanding of the life of Tutankhamun forever. Many of the burial goods found in Tutankhamun's tomb may not have been his at all. Working with Tutankhamun expert Nicholas Reeves, t...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3309/the-pierced-skull-mummy-forensics-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3309/the-pierced-skull-mummy-forensics-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
The Mummy Research Team at the University of York is called out to look at the body of a South American mummy that has a number of visible wounds. Was the man a victim of crime?Content licensed from Eastwest Documentaries to Little Dot Studios. Any que...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3228/the-creation-of-ziggy-stardust-101-people-who-made-the-20th-century-part-6-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3228/the-creation-of-ziggy-stardust-101-people-who-made-the-20th-century-part-6-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
The countdown moves towards its climax. We meet some of the greatest inventors, influential leaders, and most infamous villains of the twentieth century as we head towards the Top Twenty.Content licensed from DRG to Little Dot Studios.Any queries, plea...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3148/florence-foster-jenkins-the-extraordinary-story-of-the-worst-opera-singer-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3148/florence-foster-jenkins-the-extraordinary-story-of-the-worst-opera-singer-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
This documentary examines the enigma and the woman behind this aural assault on the public. Taking on the challenge of portraying the flamboyant ‘queen of dissonance’ is opera superstar Joyce DiDonato making her cinematic debut. The casting of a great ...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3102/the-flu-epidemic-that-wiped-out-an-entire-tribe-darwin%E2%80%99s-beagle-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3102/the-flu-epidemic-that-wiped-out-an-entire-tribe-darwin%E2%80%99s-beagle-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
In this episode, Sarah Darwin visits the last remaining members of a native tribe that was wiped out by a European disease. We also hear the history of the Beagle's incredible nautical resilience.Content licensed from TVF International to Little Dot S...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3021/the-untold-legends-of-female-vikings-who-conquered-iceland-viking-women-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3021/the-untold-legends-of-female-vikings-who-conquered-iceland-viking-women-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
The Vikings changed Europe forever, yet half of them have almost completely disappeared from collective memory: the viking women. Quite unjustly so, as they played an important role in the world of the Vikings and performed extraordinary deeds. Viking ...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3407/why-did-cleopatra-kill-her-siblings-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3407/why-did-cleopatra-kill-her-siblings-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
For 2,000 years almost all evidence of Cleopatra had disappeared - until now. Neil Oliver investigates the story of a ruthless queen who would kill her own siblings for power.Content licensed from Lion Tv. Any queries, please contact us at: owned-enqui...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3326/this-strange-edwardian-condition-caused-by-radium-hidden-killers-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3326/this-strange-edwardian-condition-caused-by-radium-hidden-killers-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
How radium caused all sorts of problems during the Edwardian era.Content licensed from DRG to Little Dot Studios. Any queries, please contact us at: owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3244/martin-luther-king-jr-s-impact-101-people-who-made-the-20th-century-part-2-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3244/martin-luther-king-jr-s-impact-101-people-who-made-the-20th-century-part-2-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
There have been many people across the centuries who played a transformative role in shaping life as we know it now. Join us for another episode, where we take a look at some of these amazing people from the 20th century and how they helped shape it.Co...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3164/is-this-the-oldest-road-in-britain-ancient-tracks-ep1-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3164/is-this-the-oldest-road-in-britain-ancient-tracks-ep1-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Tony Robinson explores the mysteries and legends of the Icknield Way's prehistoric mines, hidden caves, demonic dogs and mysterious ley lines, as he travels from the Norfolk coast to Bedfordshire's hills.Content licensed from Beyond Distribution to L...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3037/why-young-queen-victoria-was-so-adored-royal-upstairs-downstairs-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3037/why-young-queen-victoria-was-so-adored-royal-upstairs-downstairs-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Tim and Rosemary visit Holkham Hall in North Norfolk, as they retrace the steps of 16-year-old Victoria on a two day visit there, in 1835, two years before she became Queen. It was part of a PR drive by her mother, the Duchess of Kent, who was keen to ...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3423/the-lethal-past-of-victorian-construction-tony-robinson-s-worst-jobs-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3423/the-lethal-past-of-victorian-construction-tony-robinson-s-worst-jobs-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Tony shows us how the steeplejacks risked their lives to keep villages in tact.Content licensed from Spire. Any queries, please contact us at: owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.comProduced by Spire]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3342/the-grim-realities-of-life-before-medicine-medieval-dead-absolute-hsitory/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3342/the-grim-realities-of-life-before-medicine-medieval-dead-absolute-hsitory/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Through thorough investigation, experts are shedding light on the illnesses and diseases that blighted medieval life, and reveal that leprosy may not have have been as horrible as the history books have claimed.Content licensed from Cineflix.]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3260/casanova-s-first-true-love-casanova-s-letters-part-1-of-6-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3260/casanova-s-first-true-love-casanova-s-letters-part-1-of-6-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
A true son of the renaissance, Casanova was a musician, a healer, a spy and a lover. He led a tempestuous life where he made and lost fortunes, invented the National Lottery, fought duels with Counts, and had the most famous love life of all time. Thes...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3180/how-to-make-edwardian-cheese-edwardian-farm-ep10-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3180/how-to-make-edwardian-cheese-edwardian-farm-ep10-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
The team follows a flock of sheep up on to Dartmoor, where it was traditional for many shepherds to take their flocks for summer grazing. Alex and Peter get to grips with shearing, while Ruth takes the fleeces off to a wool mill to find out how it was ...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3054/time-crashers-take-part-in-a-medieval-jousting-tournament-time-crashers-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3054/time-crashers-take-part-in-a-medieval-jousting-tournament-time-crashers-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
The Time Crashers are now back in 1468, one of the few years England was not troubled by the Wars of the Roses and they are in two unisex teams of squires, the Reds and the Blacks, competing with each other to prepare their knight for a jousting tourna...]]>