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Part 4/6. The terms of Casaubon's will shock Dorothea; Brooke prepares to become a candidate for the Reform Bill.

Military historian Saul David explores how wars are really fought, in the backroom of military planning. He begins by looking at how to keep an army fed and housed.

Liz McIvor looks at how the nation's canal network was saved following years of neglect and finds out how Birmingham led the way in urban regeneration, turning canals and their environs from places to be avoided, to places to embrace.

The story of how Britain's phone network was built. Incredibly, there was once a time when phones weren't pocket-sized wireless devices, but bulky objects wired into homes and workplaces. Over the course of 100 years, engineers rolled out a communications network that joined up...

Military historian Saul David explores how wars are really fought, in the backroom of military planning. He begins by looking at how to keep an army fed and housed.

Remote Eskdale is the final destination in explorer Paul Rose's trek through the Lake District. This corner of the western Lakes is off the normal tourist track, but it boasts England's highest mountain. Before heading for the tough Lakeland summit of Scafell Pike, Paul meets...

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