The history of England from the 17th century to modern times is chronicled. Included: 17th-century dissenters; an 18th-century feminist writer of children's books; a highwayman shipped to Australia. Also: the Industrial Revolution; the secret history of a Victorian village; WWI battlefields; Kibworth during WWII.
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Recalling Kibworth during the Hundred Years' War. Also: the town's first school; a rebellion against Henry V; Henry VIII's Protestant Reformation; the English Civil War; and the rise of middle-class merchants in the nearby textile town of Coventry.
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Recalling the Second Barons' War, a famine and the Black Death, which killed two-thirds of Kibworth's residents.
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The history of England is chronicled through the prism of Kibworth, Leicestershire. In the opener, historian Michael Wood investigates the lost history of the village's first 1000 years. Included: the Norman occupation and its impact on villagers; the medieval open fields.
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