All Episodes 2020

This episode focuses on Robert the Bruce's victory against the English at Bannockburn in June 1314.

The Battle of Hastings of October 1066 ended Anglo-Saxon rule in England and resulted in the transformation of our language and culture. The events of the battle were immortalised in the Bayeux Tapestry, which appears to show King Harold dying with an arrow through his eye. However, Rob learns that the story may not be as simple as that.

Rob Bell investigates the events that led to the Battle of Watling Street, Boudicca's uprising against the Roman occupation of Britain.

Rob visits Bosworth Field, site of the decisive battle in 1485 that ended the Wars of the Roses and ushered in the Tudor royal dynasty. He considers the key stages of the battle with historians and battle re-enactors, while Professor Turi King of Leicester University reveals how the remains of Richard III were discovered.

Rob Bell visits the site of the Battle of Naseby, revealing the events that led up to the English Civil War. The battle resulted in a decisive victory for the Roundheads.

Rob tells the stories of six important battles that shaped British history. In 1549, in the village of Wymondham in Norfolk, a local dispute over land ownership and sheepgrazing led by yeoman farmer Robert Kett sparked one of the most violent rebellions by peasants against authority that Britain has ever seen.