Michael Wood's Story of England

History

History

Historian Michael Wood tells the 2,000-year-old story of the settlement of Kibworth, Leicestershire, a community that survived the Black Death, the English Civil War, the Industrial Revolution and World War II. Episodes cover Kibworth's first 1,000 years, the worst famine in European history, the dramatic events of Henry VIII's Protestant Reformation, and the battles of the English Civil War.