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. Professor Barry Cunliffe considers those times from the vantage point of Southern England in the 1970s.

The great Universities founded in the Middle Ages created amazing advances in learning and culture of all kinds. Most of it helped mankind. Some was terrible in the extreme.

With Barry Cunliffe, Tom Hassall and Richard Cusden