History: The Interesting Bits

A look at the men and women who've run for, and in some cases won the Presidency. Find out how to take the top job and keep it.

We look at history's most interesting criminals, con artists, frauds and fakes and ask how they got away with it.

Empires and lives have been won and lost over secrets kept and secrets revealed. We meet spies from Delilah to Roald Dahl and reveal the real life model for James Bond.

You can start a war over anything, from an assassination to a lost ear or a stolen bucket, but we learn that though it's easy to start a war it's not so easy to end one.

Throughout history men and women have dedicated themselves to building fortunes. But how did they get it, how did they spend it and were they happier than the rest of us?

Throughout history, love has cost royalty their heads, generals their victories, and many of us our sanity. We explore why that hasn't stopped us looking for love.

History is full of revolutions, industrial, sexual and the big one, political. But we discover how, even if your cause seems pure you can still end up creating monsters.

Our modern world was created through invention. But great inventors build on earlier ideas or sometimes even steal them and it's not always clear who first had the spark.