Timewatch

In May 1945, British soldiers near the Austrian border town of Klagenfurt handed over 26,000 Yugoslav anti-Communist refugees to Tito's Communist partisans.

1984 opens amid the greatest fears of international tension and nuclear holocaust since the Cold War. Lord Bullock, biographer of British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, talks about the foundation of NATO and how the West learnt to deal with the Soviet Union after the War.

Among the Nazi war leaders tried at Nuremberg, Hitler's successor Admiral Doenitz, received the lightest sentence of all. Now new research suggests Doenitz was far more deeply implicated in the atrocities of the Third Reich than previously imagined.

A meeting with the man who met the men who charged with the Light Brigade. Now aged 97, he has devoted his life to tracing all those who took part in the most celebrated action in Victorian history.

Did Victorian wives really 'lie back and think of England'? New research suggests they enjoyed a far more liberated sex life than conventional image allows.

In 1924, 28 million people visited the last of the great imperial exhibitions at Wembley - now it is almost forgotten.

Timewatch re-examines The Case for King William. Why did William of Normandy believe the Crown of England was his right? "The Norman Church and Castle Hastings", wrote the chroniclers, "was a fatal day for England." What do we know of the barons who stamped their authority on their newly-conquered possessions?

The private papers of Germany's last Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, uncover his secret life. In public the figurehead of swaggering Prussian militarism, in private a manic personality obsessed with fantastical schemes for himself and Germany.

In North Carolina they are celebrating the 400th anniversary of the first settlement in North America. Colonisation of the New World was Walter Ralegh 's most ambitious scheme, but what was its aim?

It was the first modern General Election. Two parties, two national leaders - the King versus Parliament. With a computer analysis of the crucial results, Timewatch fights again the election that marked a watershed in English political history.

Christopher Andrew uncovers new evidence that pitch invasions, mob riots and attacks on rival supporters were at their height before 1914.

How true are historical novels? GORE vidal's Lincoln draws the political battlefield in Washington during the American Civil War. What does it add to our portrait of one of America's greatest presidents?

In 1839, 7,000 Welsh miners and ironworkers marched on Newport to demand their democratic rights. The result was the last mass treason trial in British history.

Heroes inevitably suffer at the hands of those who worship them, few more so than one of the most popular of all, Nelson. Since his death in 1805, how have subsequent generations perceived him?