Michael Wood's Story of England

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  • BBC Four
  • Documentary

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Romans to Normans
Episode overview
With the help of the local people and using archaeology, landscape, language and DNA, Michael uncovers the lost history of the first thousand years of the village, featuring a Roman .. show full overview
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Domesday to Magna Carta
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Wood's unique portrait moves on to 1066 when the Normans build a castle in Kibworth. He reveals how occupation affected the villagers from the gallows to the alehouse, and shows the .. show full overview
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The Great Famine and the Black Death
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Wood's fascinating tale reaches the catastrophic 14th century. Kibworth goes through the worst famine in European history, and then, as revealed in the astonishing village archive in .. show full overview
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Peasants' Revolt to Tudors
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Wood's gripping tale moves on to dramatic battles of conscience in the time of the Hundred Years' War. Amazing finds in the school archive help trace peasant education back to the 14th .. show full overview
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Henry VIII to the Industrial Revolution
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The tale reaches the dramatic events of Henry VIII's Reformation and the battles of the English Civil War. We track Kibworth's 17th century dissenters, travel on the Grand Union Canal .. show full overview
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Victoria to the Present Day
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In this final episode, helped by today's villagers Michael uncovers the secret history of a Victorian village more colourful than even Dickens could have imagined. Recreating their penny .. show full overview

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