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American scholar James Shapiro examines the plays Shakespeare wrote during the turbulent reign of Elizabeth’s successor, King James I. One of the new king’s first official acts was to name Shakespeare a...
A series of 12 x 30-minute programmes in which five archaeologists and historians take on the challenge of running a farm on the Welsh borders for a year, as it would have been in the reign of James I....
A four-part historical documentary series on the life of Shakespeare, presented by Michael Wood.
Claire Tomlin reads her biography of Samuel Pepys, the Fleet Street tailor’s son who made himself rich and powerful, an MP and advisor to royalty. She also traces his relations with many women, from...
In this course Tristam Hunt looks at what used to be thought of an an English civil war between Roundheads and Cavaliers - and shows that it was in fact a war between three kingdoms and two religions, and...
The CIVIL WAR is a two disc set, comprising all four episodes of the Open University/BBC series: ‘The Breakdown, ‘Taking Sides’, ‘Total War’ and ‘End Game’. The programmes combine to tell the...
A local history research project showing people discovering more about Nicholas Assheton, a Lancashire man who lived in the early 17th century. Part of a distance-learning programme.
Uses reconstructions and footage of the battlefield as it is today to present an account of the battle of Edgehill of 23 October 1642.
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