Michael Wood's Story Of England

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Michael Wood's Story Of England

The story of one village across all of English history concludes with a look at Victorian concerts, WWI battlefields and the 1940 bombing of Kibworth.

May 2020
A portrait of one village through the whole of English history sees 17th-century dissenters, an 18th-century writer and knitting factories.
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.
Michael Wood's portrait of one village across the whole of English history reaches the 14th century, when a terrible famine is followed by the Black Death.
April 2020
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.
Michael Wood uncovers the history of Kibworth's first 1,000 years, with a Roman villa, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and evidence of life on the eve of the Norman Conquest.
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