Lucy Worsley explores how the history of three of Britain's founding national events are in fact carefully crafted mythologies. The Wars of the Roses, the Glorious Revolution and the creation of the British Raj are all revealed as carefully-uuyuuynstructed narratives created by the victors at the time and embellished by historians, novelists and film-makers ever since.
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