Talk:A History of Britain (TV series)

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the A History of Britain (TV series) article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

BBC Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject BBC, an attempt to better organise information in articles related to the BBC. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page where you can join us as a member. You can also visit the BBC Portal.BBCWikipedia:WikiProject BBCTemplate:WikiProject BBCBBC articles

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Tasks for WikiProject BBC:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Improve BBC, BBC News (TV channel) and BBC News to Good Article status following previous reviews, create BBC Computer Literacy Project (in light of forthcoming 30th anniversary)
Cleanup : Chucklevision - references and general clean-up, Pebble Mill Studios - over-detailed and long, BBC World Service Television - unreferenced and confusing
Copyedit : BBC News, Broadcasting House
Expand : Top 20 start-class BBC articles with most importance: BBC Japan, BBC World Service Television, BBC Lifestyle, BBC Two Northern Ireland
NPOV : Criticism of the BBC (See comments)
Stubs : Stub-Class BBC articles
Other : *Restructure the category
- Add infoboxes to the BBC articles without infoboxes
- Add free-use images to biographical articles where possible
- Add references to Goa Mix (see assessment) and Coat of arms of the BBC
- Return Dad's Army to a Good article. (See comments)
- Reassess BBC following improvements to article.

Television: British

	Television portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Television, a collaborative effort to develop and improve Wikipedia articles about television programs. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page where you can join the discussion. To improve this article, please refer to the style guidelines for the type of work.TelevisionWikipedia:WikiProject TelevisionTemplate:WikiProject Televisiontelevision articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by the British television task force.

Untitled[edit]

a Note that this a history of Britain not the British Isles. Both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland are not part of Britain and, therefore, should not be included in the "Hstory of Britain". Although Northen Irish people are often refered to as being British, they are not: check any UK passport where it explictly states that it is a passport for Great Britain and Northern Ireland. -Unsigned comment from user:86.42.77.140

Actually Simon Schama made it pretty clear that he meant Ireland to be included.I remeber him saying something about how the earliest records used "Britannia" in this sense. It's made especially clear at the end of the episode with William and Mary and the Battle of the Boyne which had a speech something like "If this was a history of England that would be the end of the story but as it is a history Britain it is just the start," and playing out with clips from the Northern Ireland troublesA Geek Tragedy 13:00, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Expanded article[edit]

I have restructured and expanded this article. The new infobox was primarily designed for nature documentaries, but it works just as well for any other. If I feel up to it, I may embark on writing original episode summaries of equal length. (See those within Life on Earth or any of David Attenborough's 'Life' series articles for examples (I wrote all of those summaries except for Life in the Freezer, which I tidied and expanded). However, history is not my strongest subject and I would want to be certain that I could do all the programmes justice before I provide any for this article. Chris 42 15:28, 12 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The background sound overpowers the excellent commentary, rendering it almost unwatchable sadly. I’m giving up[edit]

Clean up the sound quality 86.3.118.151 (talk) 12:45, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]