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36. Robert the Bruce and the Declaration of Arbroath
Season 1 Episode 36
This week we travel with Neil to Angus where the glowing red eye of Arbroath Abbey casts a watchful look over us.
It was here at the Abbey in 1320 tha…
5 years, 3 months ago
35. St Nectan’s Glen, Cornwall
Season 1 Episode 35
This week Neil takes us off the beaten track to St Nectan’s Glen in Cornwall. It’s one of a number of enchanted places that are dotted all over the B…
5 years, 3 months ago
34. The heart of the British Isles, Snaefell, Isle of Man
Season 1 Episode 34
This week Neil travels to an island at the heart of the British Isles.
Snaefell is the highest mountain on the Isle of Man. On a clear day, from it’s …
5 years, 3 months ago
33. Magna Carta
Season 1 Episode 33
This week, Neil travels to see an iconic document that shook the world.
In 1215 a battling king squared up to his rebellious barons in a power struggl…
5 years, 3 months ago
32. Durham Cathedral
Season 1 Episode 32
This week Neil travels back in time, almost 1000 years, to what became the city of Durham and the construction of a majestic building whose beauty an…
5 years, 4 months ago
31. The Great War
Season 1 Episode 31
This week Neil’s journey takes us in search of the battle whose ferocity, violence and savagery shocked the whole of the British Isles and shaped its…
5 years, 4 months ago
30. A Great King, Hyde Abbey, Winchester
Season 1 Episode 30
This week Neil takes us in search of the remains of one the greatest Kings ever to reign in the British Isles.
Not far from Winchester’s city centre, …
5 years, 4 months ago
29. King Alfred the Great versus the Viking, The Alfred Jewel
Season 1 Episode 29
This week Neil takes us back in time to meet a king who stopped the Vikings in their tracks.
Sitting in the Ashmolean museum in Oxford is a precious g…
5 years, 4 months ago
28. The Vikings Great Heathen Army, Repton, Derbyshire
Season 1 Episode 28
This week Neil winters with the Great Heathen Army, the mighty Viking force that was poised, ready to sweep across the British Isles.
After the Viking…
5 years, 4 months ago
27. The Vikings Are Here! Brough of Birsay, Orkney.
Season 1 Episode 27
This week Neil takes us with him to a place of stunning beauty with a dark and brutal past.
For years the Vikings well-deserved reputation for violenc…
5 years, 5 months ago