Helen Castor

Most Popular Helen Castor Trailers

Total trailers found: 7

Joan of Arc Trailer (2015)

27 November 2015

Could a nineteen-year-old girl change the course of history simply by faith? From ordinary farm girl to extraordinary hero, the life of Joan of Arc was one of conviction and courage.

The Real Versailles Trailer (2016)

30 May 2016

As BBC Two premieres its lavish new drama set in the sumptuous surroundings of Versailles, Lucy Worsley and Helen Castor tell the real-life stories behind one of the world's grandest buildings.

A Renaissance Education: The Schooling of Thomas More’s Daughter Trailer (2011)

11 August 2011

Helen Castor introduces a film about Thomas More's daughter Margaret, showing her revolutionary intellectual spirit and how the ideas that shaped her education changed the cultural life of England forever.

Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage, Death Trailer (2013)

09 October 2013

In Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage, Death, historian and author Dr. Helen Castor (She-Wolves: England's Early Queens) examines how the people of the Middle Ages handled three of life's great rites of passage birth, marriage, and death.

Shakespeare's Tomb Trailer (2016)

18 April 2016

Historian Dr. Helen Castor explores the mysteries surrounding Shakespeare’s burial place. Will the first- ever scientific investigation discover why his tombstone's only inscription is a curse against any man who ‘moves my bones’?

Joan of Arc: God's Warrior Trailer (2015)

26 May 2015

Writer and historian Dr Helen Castor explores the life - and death - of Joan of Arc. Joan was an extraordinary figure - a female warrior in an age that believed women couldn't fight, let alone lead an army.

She-Wolves: England's Early Queens Trailer (2012)

07 March 2012

Helen Castor presents an in depth and insightful series covering England's early Queens, from the High Middle Ages with Eleanor and get daughter-in-law Eleanor of Aquitane, through the Late Middle Ages with Isabella of France and Margaret of Anjou and finishing with Lady Jane Grey, Mary I and Elizabeth I.