How the earliest humans spread around the world, adapting and surviving against the odds.

The story of the first empires which laid the foundations for the modern world.

Charting the spiritual revolutions that shook the world between 300 BC and 700 AD.

The Middle Ages, when Vikings explored and pillaged.

Europe's rise from piracy to private enterprise.

A time when people worldwide rose up in the name of freedom and equality.

How Britain's Industrial Revolution created the modern world.

The atom bomb and other developments in the twentieth century – our age.