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 Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:22:42 +0200 Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:22:42 +0200 HedexTV - Online Television and VOD Platform - RSS Generator 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/3101/the-treasures-of-the-roman-field-time-team-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3101/the-treasures-of-the-roman-field-time-team-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
The team arrive in a large square field about 20 miles from Colchester. This is an area typically rich in Roman activity. Several remains have previously been dug up, including coins, an elaborate key, and Samian ware. Adrian Thorpe, the farmer, wants ...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3020/how-rome-staged-history-s-largest-heist-in-dacia-hunt-for-transylvanian-gold-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3020/how-rome-staged-history-s-largest-heist-in-dacia-hunt-for-transylvanian-gold-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Our story begins in Romania, twenty years ago, with the discovery of 24 huge golden bracelets - previously unknown to archaeologists. They are part of looted hoards valued at $50 million from a 2,000 year old Dacian Kingdom mountain sanctuary. Located ...]]> 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/3117/the-mammoth-buried-in-the-british-countryside-time-team-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3117/the-mammoth-buried-in-the-british-countryside-time-team-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Time Team go to a gravel pit that is soon to become landfill, where they attempt to unearth 200,000-year-old remains of mammoths and other prehistoric animals. Gravel pits are typical sites for paleolithic remains, but the chances of finding evidence o...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3036/the-tragic-stories-of-victorian-england-s-workhouses-secrets-from-the-workhouse-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3036/the-tragic-stories-of-victorian-england-s-workhouses-secrets-from-the-workhouse-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
In Victorian England the Workhouse formed the basis of society. The poor and destitute entered Workhouses to receive free health care and food. But in a society that viewed poverty as a crime, these workhouses were never meant to comfort. It was a mean...]]> 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/3053/what-life-was-like-as-a-victorian-baker-victorian-bakers-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3053/what-life-was-like-as-a-victorian-baker-victorian-bakers-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Four modern bakers bake their way through the era that gave us modern baking as we know it - the reign of Queen Victoria. Experts Alex Langlands and Annie Gray join them to tell the incredible story of our daily bread.The journey begins in 1837, when b...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/2972/the-fabulous-battle-fashion-of-edward-the-black-prince-a-stitch-in-time-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/2972/the-fabulous-battle-fashion-of-edward-the-black-prince-a-stitch-in-time-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Amber explores the life of The Black Prince, a hero to the English, villain to the French. He was a warrior whose premature death in 1376 denied him the crown by just 12 months. He is laid to rest in a gilded bronze tomb at Canterbury Cathedral. A prim...]]> 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/3069/the-world-s-first-sex-symbol-the-scandalous-adventures-of-lord-byron-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3069/the-world-s-first-sex-symbol-the-scandalous-adventures-of-lord-byron-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Rupert Everett follows in the footsteps of romantic poet Lord Byron, 200 years after he embarked on his infamous tour of Europe. Described as ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’, Byron sought to escape his notoriety in Britain by travelling through Portug...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/2988/the-horrifying-story-of-the-victorian-alcatraz-how-the-victorians-built-britain-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/2988/the-horrifying-story-of-the-victorian-alcatraz-how-the-victorians-built-britain-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Michael Buerk discovers how the Victorians instituted a revolution in law and order, created the first modern police force and built the prisons Britain still relies on today. He begins in Spike Island, County Cork, dubbed Ireland's Alcatraz, where he...]]> 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/3085/the-marvellous-shopping-experience-of-victorian-england-turn-back-time-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3085/the-marvellous-shopping-experience-of-victorian-england-turn-back-time-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
A group of modern shopkeepers and their families are on the journey of a lifetime - they're taking over empty shops in a neglected market square in Shepton Mallet to see if they can turn back time for the British High Street. They'll live and trade t...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3004/queen-victoria-s-educational-visit-to-warwick-royal-upstairs-downstairs-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3004/queen-victoria-s-educational-visit-to-warwick-royal-upstairs-downstairs-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Victoria, who had been on the throne for 21 years, visited Warwick Castle with Albert in 1858 for just three hours. They were tourists just like the other ten thousand visitors to the castle, which had been open to the public for at least 30 years befo...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3440/why-did-victorian-women-crush-themselves-to-death-hidden-killers-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3440/why-did-victorian-women-crush-themselves-to-death-hidden-killers-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home: In a genuine horror story, Suzannah Lipscomb reveals the lethal products, gadgets and conveniences that lurked in every room of the Victorian home and shows how they were unmasked.Content licensed from DRG. Any que...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3358/how-to-make-medieval-meals-a-cook-back-in-time-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3358/how-to-make-medieval-meals-a-cook-back-in-time-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Jan Leeming show us what medieval 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/3276/the-ss-morro-castle-disaster-history-retold-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3276/the-ss-morro-castle-disaster-history-retold-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
The world’s oceans are as beautiful as they are deadly. Thousands upon thousands of miles of empty water. If a ship encounters trouble far from land, there is little those onboard can do— except hope for rescue. Though sinking may seem to be the worst ...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3196/what-life-was-like-for-an-edwardian-farmer-edwardian-farm-ep6-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3196/what-life-was-like-for-an-edwardian-farmer-edwardian-farm-ep6-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Six months into their year, Ruth, Alex and Peter explore the daily lives of Edwardian farmers. This episode has a slightly different format to the rest of the series; instead of covering a whole month's changes it uses a framing device of Ruth writing...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3080/how-fred-trump-built-the-trump-real-estate-empire-dynasties-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3080/how-fred-trump-built-the-trump-real-estate-empire-dynasties-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Nothing and everything is personal in business dynasties. Families are bound together or pushed apart as patriarchs and matriarchs lead the way, or let others take the fall. Business is just business. But a name is everything.Content licensed from DRG ...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/2999/the-royal-romances-that-made-britain-fourteen-weddings-a-divorce-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/2999/the-royal-romances-that-made-britain-fourteen-weddings-a-divorce-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Chronicling the romantic life of Britain's royal family in the 20th century, this documentary explores the history of royal marriages and asks what's next for a royal family increasingly battered by media pressures.]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3375/ancient-samurai-weapons-samurai-bow-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3375/ancient-samurai-weapons-samurai-bow-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Samurai Bow explores the violence, beauty and reverie which surround the Samurai's earliest weapon. With stunning dramatic reconstruction, we reveal the ancient way of the Samurai and explore how the bow could avert wars when put in the hands of a tru...]]> 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/3096/what-it-was-like-to-travel-first-class-in-the-1960s-great-rail-restorations-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3096/what-it-was-like-to-travel-first-class-in-the-1960s-great-rail-restorations-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
It's luxury and glamour to the fore this time, as a 1960 Pullman dining car is brought back to life in all of its glory. And Peter has another train driving lesson.Content licensed from Cineflix to Little Dot Studios.Any queries, please contact us at:...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3015/the-gruesome-lives-of-roman-britain-s-gladiators-history-of-britain-season-2-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3015/the-gruesome-lives-of-roman-britain-s-gladiators-history-of-britain-season-2-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
Tony Robinson takes a fresh and humorous look at British history ‘from the bottom up’. Instead of the usual stories of the powerful, rich and famous, this is history through the eyes of the common people. We explore their everyday lives: how they washe...]]> 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/3112/britain-s-underground-christmas-during-the-blitz-wartime-farm-christmas-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3112/britain-s-underground-christmas-during-the-blitz-wartime-farm-christmas-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
1944 saw the sixth Christmas during World War II, and shortages were biting deeper than ever. Added to this, Britain's cities were in the grip of the worst German attacks since the Blitz of 1940. Unmanned flying bombs - the dreaded V1 'Doodlebugs' a...]]> https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3031/how-to-make-authentic-victorian-scottish-shortbread-royal-upstairs-downstairs-absolute-history/ https://www.hedex.tv/index.php/video/3031/how-to-make-authentic-victorian-scottish-shortbread-royal-upstairs-downstairs-absolute-history/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:50:18 +0100
At the time of this visit to Scone in Scotland, Victoria had been married to Albert for two years and had given birth to her first two children Princess Victoria and Prince Albert Edward.Amazingly their host, the Earl of Mansfield, who had been plannin...]]> 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]]>