Timewatch

John Tusa investigates the work of a lifetime -the completed new edition of The Diary of Samuel Pepys. He talks to Robert Latham , editor of this unparalleled document of Restoration society, who has uncovered previously unknown details of Pepys's life.

Fifty years ago, British politics was dominated by campaigns for peace. What are the parallels with the 1980s? John Tusa reports.

On the Fiftieth anniversary of Hitler becoming German Chancellor, Winchester reports from Washington and Nuremberg on the process of de-nazification that began in 1945. He examines how America wanted to mould the defeated [West] Germany in it's own image through forced re-education.

Richard III - hunchback murderer of the princes in the Tower, or victim of Tudor propaganda? On the 500th anniversary of his coronation, historians go into battle again over his reputation.

Following the arrest of Klaus Barbie , butcher of Lyon, memories of Nazi collaboration have again returned to haunt ageneration of Frenchmen.

During the Falklands war, the Argentinians made great capital of the last time they'd fought the British -and won, in 1806.

After Parliament's vote on hanging, an investigation into the history of Tyburn and the mass public executions in the 18th century. Did hanging deter?

From Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, designed by Albert for his family, the many different sides of his remarkable character are brought into focus.

A remarkable newly discovered archive of silent film reveals hospital life in the 1920s and 30s. How did people afford medical care in the days before the National Health?

A "Timewatch" special which looks at the early years of the Prince Consort, which culminated with his marriage to Queen Victoria