Tony reveals the real story behind the last great Anglo Saxon king. Far from being just the loser at the Battle of Hastings, Harold was a charismatic leader.
Boudica has come to symbolise indomitable British strength, but Tony uncovers the very different story of the real queen Boudica: a Roman collaborator who was prone to extreme, disorganised violence
Tony goes on the trail of Scottish warrior William Wallace, and unravels a complex story of murder, treason and war atrocities that's very different from the swashbuckling tale in Braveheart
Tony sifts the fact from the fiction on whether Robin Hood, the legendary dispossessed nobleman hiding out in Sherwood Forest, did actually exist
