Prehistory

• The Clan of the Cave Bear – Jean M Auel (Earth’s Children’s Series

Ancient

• The Greeks – Crucible of Civilisation (SBS Empires Series)
• Rome – (The Complete HBO Season 1)

Christianity

• The Dead Sea Scroll Gospels
• Gospel of Mary
• Gospel of Thomas
• Kathleen McGowen Books – I don’t really agree with her interpretation of John the Baptist at all but this is still a great and interesting read. Start with the Expected One.
• The Source of Miracles is the place where I found out about the Lord’s Prayer but not the Lady’s. See link above its a Kathleen book too.
• Servants of the Grail – Philip Coppens (I love this book I think this is how it was, shows John the Baptist as an Egyptian Missionary)

Middle Ages – 1000s to 1300s

• The Crusades – (BBC Series)
• Sharon Penmen – Book Series about Elenor of Aquitaine, Henry 11 and Richard the Lion Heart. I recommend all these start with When Christ and His Saints Slept

Renaissance – 1300 – 1600

• The Medici – Godfathers of the Renaissance (SBS Empires Series YouTube)
• The Borgias – Series
• The Tudors DVD – (Complete Series)
• Philippa Gregory – (Tudor Book Series)
• Elizabeth – First Movie with Cate

The Restoration 1600s

• Charles 11 – the Power and the Passion (BBC DVD)

The Enlightenment 1700s

• Passionate Minds – Emilie Du Chatelet, Voltaire, and the Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment (Book by David Bodanis)

Victorian Era – 1800s

• Desperate Romantics – The Pre-Raphaelite Artists (BBC DVD)

Modern Era – 1900s

• E = MC2 – The Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation, David Bodanis Book
• The Soul’s Code – In Search of Character and Calling James Hillman This is my favourite personal development book written by a man who at one time was a Jungian Psychologist