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Michael Wood's Story of England: Episode 2: Domesday to Magna Carta

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Domesday to Magna Carta

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Episode 2: Domesday to Magna Carta

BBC Four - Michael Wood's Story of England, Domesday to Magna Carta

How the Normans built a castle in Kibworth and its effect on the local population.

Michael Wood's unique portrait of one village through the whole of English history moves on to 1066, when the invading Normans built a castle in Kibworth.

Groundbreaking series in which Michael Wood tells the story of one place throughout the whole of English history. The village is Kibworth in Leicestershire in the heart of England - a place that lived through the Black Death, the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution and was even bombed in World War Two.  

Wood's unique portrait moves on to 1066 when the Normans build a castle in Kibworth. He reveals how occupation affected the villagers from the gallows to the alehouse, and shows the medieval open fields in action in the only place where they still survive today.  

With the help of the residents, he charts events in the village leading to the people's involvement in the Civil War of Simon de Montfort. Intertwining the local and national narratives, this is a moving and informative picture of one local community through time.

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Michael Wood tells the story of a small village throughout the whole of English history.

Michael Wood tells the story of one place, the Leicestershire village of Kibworth, throughout the whole of English history.

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