FRI 8pm: Elizabeth I: The Secret Life on National Geographic

A look at the monarch's life, examining claims of illegitimacy, adultery and even the possibility that she was a man.
http://tvguide.co.uk/detail.asp?id=109633368

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Thu: 10pm Battle for North America on YeSTERDAY

Historian Dan Snow explores the events of the Battle of Quebec in 1759, a conflict that saw Britain employ its growing industrial strength to wage an unprecedented campaign against the French for control of what would eventually become Canada. Dan journeys up the St Lawrence River following a route taken by British ships, and trains as an 18th-century infantryman in an effort to learn what the conflict would have been like for those involved

http://tvguide.co.uk/detail.asp?id=109623315

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WED: 9-10pm Time Team & Special on More4

9pm Season 18. Episode 4 of 14. Hitler's Island Fortress. Tony Robinson gets to choose a site for investigation - and decides to take the team to Jersey, home to a German anti-aircraft battery built during the Second World War. As the experts explore the area, they realise it contained a large and complex settlement, and discover shocking facts about the islanders' suffering during wartime

10pm SPECIAL - The King of Bling. Tony Robinson and the team attempt to identify the occupant of an Anglo-Saxon tomb discovered in Southend, Essex. The burial site, dated as 1,400 years old, contained a vast number of gold artefacts, suggesting it was made for a king or someone else of great wealth and importance. Experts from around the world

TUE: After The War Was Won on YeSTERDAY 9:00pm

http://tvguide.co.uk/detail.asp?id=109599089
Season 1. Episode 1. Bringing The Boys Home. New series. Documentary exploring the lives of the men and women who fought on the frontline during the Second World War when they returned home to post-war Britain

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MON: Narrow Escapes of World War Two on YeSTERDAY 10:00pm

Season 1. Episode 10. Evacuation in the Baltics. The largest evacuation of the Second World War saw two million civilians and soldiers taken away in an extraordinary German operation that lasted for four months

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MON: Great Britons on Blighty 8:00pm

Season 1. Episode 7 of 10. Elizabeth I. Michael Portillo puts forward the case for Elizabeth I who, he argues, made Britain what it is today. Despite starting life consigned to the Tower of London, she survived to guide the nation through dangerous times, successfully turning the country into a recognised world power

http://tvguide.co.uk/detail.asp?id=109424995

SUN - ALL DAY Time Team on Discovery History

http://tvguide.co.uk/detail.asp?id=109409443

highlight a 8pm with Henry V's flagship

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SAT: Tony Robinson's Gods and Monsters on Channel 4 8:15pm

FRI: Dunkirk: The Forgotten Men on YeSTERDAY 6:00pm

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Thurs: The Long March to Freedom on YeSTERDAY 10:00pm

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Wed: 9pm JFK: The Lost Bullet

Re-examine the film which shows the assassination of President John F Kennedy in Dallas in 1963.

TUE: The Somme on Discovery History 6:00pm

http://tvguide.co.uk/detail.asp?id=108969069

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Sir Robert Peel - Drunk?

Next to Leicester Royal Infirmary there is a pub named after the creator of the modern police force. Is this ironic? There is a police parking bay just a 100 metres away.

FRI: Blackadder Goes Forth on Gold at 8:40pm

Blackadder develops an interest in art to escape the front line.

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THU: The Long March to Freedom 10pm on Yesterday

The experience of Allied prisoners of war.

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WED: BBC1-Who Do You Think You Are? US at 10:45pm

Steve Buscemi explores his ancestry.
Also 2:35am Anne of a Thousand Days on ITV1

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WED: 10pm Jack the Ripper-German? on Nat Geographic

Kennedy Detail also on Discovery at 9pm
Baedeker Blitz also on Yesterday at 10pm
King Arthur (Film) on BBC3 at 10pm

MON-FRI: 7:30pm Heroes of World War Two on Five

Nuff Said

FRI: The Gunpowder Plot on Nat Geo at 7pm

Nuff said, or at least I hope so. Check ou the story in some detail here.

FRI: The Thin Red Line on More4 at 9pm

Epic 170 minute film detailing one battle during the Pacific War in 1942 by US forces. (15)

THU: The World at War at 10pm on Yesterday

The Enola Gay drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

WED: Time team on More4 from 9pm

9pm - Roman mosaics
10pm - Pugin: The God of Gothic - A Time Team Special

TUE: The Most Courageous Raid of WWII 8pm BBC2

Paddy Ashdown tells the story of the unit of Royal Marines who, in 1942, launched an attack on enemy shipping in Bordeaux harbour.