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6 Episodes 2020 - 2020
Episode 1
With the help of historians, battle experts and re-enactors, Rob reveals the tactics and events leading up to Robert the Bruce's famous victory against the English forces, despite being outnumbered two to one, on 24th June 1314.
Episode 2
The Battle of Hastings on 14th October 1066 were immortalised in the Bayeux Tapestry, which appears to show King Harold dying with an arrow through his eye - but Rob learns that the story may not be as simple as that.
Episode 3
Rob Bell investigates the events leading up to the Iceni queen Boudicca's uprising against the Roman invaders in the year 60-61 AD.
Episode 4
Rob Bell visits Bosworth Field, site of the decisive battle in 1485 that ended the Wars of the Roses. He considers the key stages of the battle, while Professor Turi King reveals how her team discovered the remains of Richard III.
Episode 5
Rob Bell visits the site of the English Civil War battle on 14th June 1645 that resulted in King Charles I's surrender and paved the way for rule by parliamentary democracy.
Episode 6
Rob Bell visits the village of Wymondham in Norfolk, where in 1549 a dispute over land ownership and sheep-grazing sparked a violent rebellion by peasants against authority.