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Michael Wood's Story of England: Episode 4: Peasants' Revolt to Tudors

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Episode 4: Peasants' Revolt to Tudors

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Amazing finds in the school archive help trace peasant education back to the 14th century.

A portrait of one village through the whole of English history. Amazing finds in the school archive help trace peasant education back to the 14th century.

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 gripping tale moves on to dramatic battles of conscience in the time of the Hundred Years' War. Amazing finds in the school archive help trace peasant education back to the 14th century and we see how the people themselves set up the first school for their children. 

Some villagers join in a rebellion against King Henry V, while others rise to become middle class merchants in the textile town of Coventry. On the horizon is the Protestant Reformation, but the rise of capitalism and individualism sow the seeds of England's future greatness.

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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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