Groundbreaking series in which Michael Wood tells the story of one place throughout the whole of English history. The village is Kibworth in Leicestershire in the heart of England - a place that lived through the Black Death, the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution and was even bombed in World War Two.
Romans to normans
Domesday to magna carta
The great famine and the black death
Peasants' revolt to tudors
Henry viii to the industrial revolution
Victoria to the present day
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