Stars: 4
Review by: Mandy Apgar
The first part
of his History of Britain series, and the only one that I can
tolerate watching. Don't ask me why, but I love the episode on the
plague. I'm odd like that. But this starts at the beginnings
of human habitation on one particular large rock in the Atlantic and
covers past Becket, Bosworth Field, Henry VIII, and ends with the death
of Elizabeth I. Major sections are on Elizabeth, her father of course,
the tricky period before him, those pesky Plantagenents
(why, oh why couldn't they get along?) and Becket's assassination, "King
Death" - the plague and its aftereffects, early rebellions like
Boudicca (or however you spell it), William Wallace, and such.
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