[1] It was devoted to documentaries regarding history and civilisations, historic, ancient or present.

[3] The new channel was still focused on history and natural history, but the schedule now included programming on engineering, crime and technology.

[4] The idea behind this rebranding was to take the channel's focus back to becoming "the only UK channel dedicated to factual history", to counter the fact that its competitors History and Yesterday had begun showing more reality and scripted programming, respectively.

In February 2013, A+E Networks, who operates History, lost a High Court battle to stop Discovery from using the Discovery History brand in the UK.

[5] This article on a United Kingdom television channel is a stub.