Castles: Britain's Fortified History - Season 1

Castles: Britain's Fortified History - Season 1

Season 1

Historian Sam Willis traces the story of Britain's castles and their unique role in our history, art and literature.
Network
Episodes3
DatesDec 4, 2014 - Dec 18, 2014

Episodes

Instruments of Invasion
Season 1Episode 160 min

Instruments of Invasion

Sam Willis shows how the castle arrived as an instrument of invasion with the Normans but became a weapon with which unruly barons challenged the Crown.

Dec 4, 2014
Kingdom of Conquest
Season 1Episode 260 min

Kingdom of Conquest

Sam Willis tells the story of the English ruler who left the most indelible mark on the castle - the great Plantagenet king Edward I who turned it into an instrument of colonization.

Dec 11, 2014
Defence of the Realm
Season 1Episode 360 min

Defence of the Realm

Sam Willis explores how, by the Wars of the Roses, castles were under attack from a new threat - the cannon, but survived into the Tudor era only to find their whole purpose challenged.

Dec 18, 2014

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