Bloody Britain

Fresh, innovative, entertaining and revelatory, Bloody Britain combines strong historical research and story telling with hands-on historical experiments, an entertaining and extremely passionate presenter, and atmospheric and innovative animation. Action-packed and informative, each enthralling episode provides a fascinating and, at times, squeamish journey through some of Britain’s most gruesome, awful, but momentous historical events. Each programme examines a key pre-archive event from British history. Whether it be battles, rebellions, wars, plagues, social unrest, betrayal, executions, injustice or even mass insanity, Bloody Britainconcentrates on the mad, sad and bad moments from our past. In short, Bloody Britain zooms in on when history was truly horrible and asks why?