In Search of Medieval Britain
Medieval art historian Dr Alixe Bovey uses the oldest surviving route map of Britain to make a series of journeys through Britain in the Middle Ages.
In Search of Medieval Britain - Heartlands
Historian Dr Alixe Bovey recreates journeys through Britain during the Middle Ages. She explores the life of the commoner.
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In Search of Medieval Britain - London and South East
Historian Dr Alixe Bovey recreates journeys through Britain during the Middle Ages. She follows the ancient pilgrim trail from the east coast to London.
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In Search of Medieval Britain - North of England
Historian Dr Alixe Bovey recreates journeys through Britain as it was in the Middle Ages. She follows the trail north from York to the contested Scottish border.
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In Search of Medieval Britain - Scotland
Alixe Bovey recreates journeys through medieval Britain. She explores Scotland, a nation so young it still had no capital and where gangsters terrorised its border lands.
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In Search of Medieval Britain - Wales
Historian Dr Alixe Bovey recreates journeys through Britain during the Middle Ages. She heads west from Gloucester to follow in the footsteps of Edward I's armies into Wales.
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In Search of Medieval Britain - West Country
Alixe Bovey recreates journeys through medieval Britain. In the West Country, she sees how myths depicted on the Gough Map were used to legitimise wars and empires.
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