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Illuminations: The Private Lives of Medieval Kings

Episode 3: Libraries Gave Us Power

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Four

The story of the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection reaches its end with the last great flowering of illumination, in the courts of the Tudors. Show more

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