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Professor Robert Bartlett explores the expansion and unchecked ambition of the Norman empire, and how its impact still resonates in today's culture and politics

Part two of two. Featuring films of people celebrating the arrival of a new tram in Wigan, a football match in Burnley, and a public swimming gala in Tynemouth

How, blinded by loyalty to his president and ignoring the advice of his family, George HW Bush was betrayed by Richard Nixon

The political struggle between De Gaulle and the Allied forces, which occurred behind the scenes of the latter stages of the conflict

How the military confrontation was decided in the 13th century on the shores of the Nile, and the role played in its outcome by a Muslim warrior called Baybars

Professor Robert Bartlett explores the expansion and unchecked ambition of the Norman empire, and how its impact still resonates in today's culture and politics

Part two of two. Featuring films of people celebrating the arrival of a new tram in Wigan, a football match in Burnley, and a public swimming gala in Tynemouth

How, blinded by loyalty to his president and ignoring the advice of his family, George HW Bush was betrayed by Richard Nixon

The political struggle between De Gaulle and the Allied forces, which occurred behind the scenes of the latter stages of the conflict