Cultural historian Janina Ramirez presents a collection of intriguing short films by emerging female directors and storytellers on topics from body image and new love to grief and belonging. Show more

Janina Ramirez tells the story of three books that defined the Reformation in England - Tyndale's New Testament, Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer and Foxe's Book of Martyrs. Show more

In the British Library, Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of illuminated manuscripts of the first Anglo-Saxon rulers to create a united England. Show more

Dr Janina Ramirez shows how medieval illuminated manuscripts gave power to the king and united the kingdom in an age of plague, warfare and rebellion. Show more

The story of the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection reaches its end with the last great flowering of illumination, in the courts of the Tudors. Show more

Janina Ramirez looks at how monasteries transformed society and rose to a position of immense power, only for sin and corruption to lead to collapse as the medieval period ended. Show more

Dr Janina Ramirez sets ex-forger Shaun Greenhalgh the challenge of making an alabaster carving of the kind mass-produced in Catholic England in the centuries before the Reformation. Show more

Janina Ramirez explores the BBC archives to create a TV history of Leonardo Da Vinci, discovering what lies beneath the Mona Lisa and even how he acquired his anatomical knowledge. Show more

Ex-forger Shaun Greenhalgh is set the task of making a Renaissance animal plate of the type invented by the great French potter Bernard Palissy. Show more

Janina Ramirez and waterman John Bailey explore the 18th-century origins of the English landscape movement in a 12-mile stretch of the Thames between Hampton and Chiswick. Show more

Through interpretations of some Swedish archaeological treasures now on display in Edinburgh, Dr Janina Ramirez looks at Viking culture and its lasting influence on Britain. Show more

Dr Janina Ramirez begins her series by exploring how monasteries evolved from a cult of isolation and self-deprivation into powerhouses of Anglo-Saxon art, industry and learning. Show more

Dr Janina Ramirez sets ex-forger Shaun Greenhalgh the almost impossible task of carving an Islamic bottle out of rock crystal in the style of the 10th-century Egyptian Fatimids. Show more

Janina Ramirez presents a set of short films by talented, emerging artists who use comedy, drama and dance to tell stories from a contemporary female perspective. Show more

Dr Janina Ramirez and Alastair Sooke explore St Petersburg through its dazzling art and architecture, and investigate how art has been used to enhance its prestige and power. Show more

Janina Ramirez presents a screengrab of inspiring, beautiful and urgent stories from emerging and established film-makers with their interpretations of life's big topics. Show more

In the first of a new series of city adventures, art historian Janina Ramirez and art critic Alastair Sooke head to Lisbon. Show more

In the second episode of the series, art historian Janina Ramirez and art critic Alastair Sooke uncover the impact of twentieth century dictatorship on Lisbon's artistic life. Show more

Dr Janina Ramirez explores the medieval Anglo-French conflict. Edward III crushes the flower of French knighthood at the Battle of Crecy. Show more

Oxford historian Dr Janina Ramirez sets Shaun Greenhalgh, once a prolific forger, the challenge of making a jewelled eagle brooch of the kind worn by Visigoth chieftains in the Dark Ages. Show more