A series of six programmes

The years between the Norman Conquest and the death of Elizabeth I were some of the most turbulent in our history. Yet they are the very foundation of our lives and heritage. Professor Barry Cunliffe considers those times from the vantage point of Southern England in the 1970s.

The Middle Ages gave birth to the most staggering architecture ever conceived; but Church and State sat uneasily in their battle for men's minds.