Welcome to working-class Northern England in 1984. Life is tough, especially for coal miners and their families as the UK miners’ strike drags on. Against this harsh backdrop, 11-year-old Billy Elliot has just discovered his love for...

Part 1 of a series on Florence Nightingale where she describes her early life, and what she felt it was like to be born in an age dominated by men.

Part 1 of the Bazalgette series. An introduction to Joseph William Bazalgette and the time in which he grew up.

How when first exploring medicine, Andreas Vesalius stole the body of a hanged criminal so that he could study anatomy.

In the first of this series Mary Seacole introduces herself and talks about her family and early years.

William Harvey introduces himself and talks about his early years and his discoveries.

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Based on the 1969 BBC archive documentary, ""Where do we go from here"", and the family roots of Minty Smith, 'Take us as we are', cultivates the spirit of freedom of the Gypsy and Traveller community - a nomadic culture still prevalent...

Silence has the makings of a good movie, but it bombed at the box office, and for a good reason. The plot is fascinating, and the history behind it is even more so. But the movie ended up being a boring mess. I think there is a gem...

The Ancient Greek physician Galen talks about his travels as a young man and the importance of Alexandria, Egypt.

Louis Pasteur explains how he proved his germ theory.

In this short video, Galen talks about Hippocrates and his theories

Galen explains what the four humours are and how they could be balanced to make people better.

Louis Pasteur explains how he discovered pasteurisation and worked on his germ theory

Vesalius describes how he came to publish the Fabric of the Human Body

In part 5 of this series, Florence describes the time she spent at Scutari hospital and the practices she introduced there.

A WW1 nurse who describes her uniform and shows how she still likes to be fashionable even among the horrors of war.

Part 6 of this series is an overview of Mary Seacole's life and work in the Crimea.

Part 2 of this series, Mary describes her first experience of treating cholera victims in Panama. 

Edward Jenner explains what smallpox is, why people feared it so much and how inoculations were sometimes used to protect people.

Vesalius explains why he questioned Galen's accuracy and what he discovered when he was dissecting a human jaw.

A WW1 nurse talks about her first experience of dressing a gangrene wound and the limited pain relief available

In this short video, Galen talks about the discoveries of Herophilus and Erasistratus