A History of Britain Season 1

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1x01 Beginnings (3100 BC - 1000 AD) aired Sep 30, 2000

Simon Schama starts his story in the Stone Age village of Skara Brae, Orkney. Over the next four thousand years Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Christian m... read more

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1x02 Conquest! (1000 - 1087) aired Oct 07, 2000

1066 is not the best remembered date in British history for nothing. In the space of nine hours whilst the Battle of Hastings raged, everything changed. Angl... read more

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1x03 Dynasty (1087 - 1216) aired Oct 14, 2000

There is no saga more powerful than that of the warring dynasty - domineering father, beautiful, scheming mother and squabbling, murderous sons and daughters... read more

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1x04 Nations (1216 - 1348) aired Oct 21, 2000

Nations is the epic account of how the nations of Britain emerged from under the hammer of England's "Longshanks" King Edward I, with a sense of who and what... read more

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1x05 King Death (1348 - 1500) aired Oct 28, 2000

It took only six years for the plague to ravage the British Isles. Its impact was to last for generations. But from the ashes of this trauma an unexpected an... read more

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1x06 Burning Convictions (1500 - 1558) aired Nov 04, 2000

Here Simon Schama charts the upheaval caused as a country renowned for its piety, whose king styled himself Defender of the Faith, turns into one of the most... read more

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1x07 The Body of the Queen (1558 - 1603) aired Nov 11, 2000

This is the story of two queens - Elizabeth I the consummate politician and Mary Queen of Scots the Catholic mother. It is also the story of the birth of a n... read more

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