In this episode modern Britons reflect on their own links to the atrocities of the British slave trade.

Episode 4, A Message From Our Ancestors

Factual

Historical

Taking documentary content from the world's top producers and broadcasters, Timeline covers everything from Ancient Rome and Egypt through to Medieval Europe, the World Wars and right up until the turn of the 21st Century.

Britain's Slave Trade

Series 1

Timeline covers everything from Ancient Rome and Egypt through to the 21st Century.

This episode reveals how the business of slavery was not just a case of slave-raiding by Europeans but slave-trading by complicit Africans.

Episode 1, Gold, Silver and Slaves

This episode follows Diane, who is in search of her past, as she meets a man whose family once owned her ancestors.

Episode 2, Unfinished Business

In this episode focuses at the factors that finally ended Britain's slave trade.