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306 results found for all records.
Breaking the Seal
Tax
- Broadcast
- 2000 (29 mins)
Tracing the extraordinary range of taxes imposed by monarchs & parliaments thru the ages, from wealth & poll taxes to tariffs on wigs, pets, windows & hearths.
Breaking the Seal
Military Records
- Broadcast
- 2000 (29 mins)
Bettany Hughes examines how British soldiers have been persuaded to fight for their country.
Breaking the Seal
Church Records
- Broadcast
- 2000 (29 mins)
Meticulously kept records from down the centuries reveal how the church wielded extraordinary power over its subjects. Bettany HUGHES’s discoveries inc seven women who were ordered to seduce an impotent man.
Breaking the Seal
Criminal Records
- Broadcast
- 2000 (29 mins)
The history of Britian’s justice system is explored.Bettany HUGHES’s examines an armed robbery in Hampshire in 1248, a 17th century Essex thief who escaped the noose & the last aristocrat to be executed...
Breaking the Seal
Land Records
- Broadcast
- 2000 (29 mins)
Bettany HUGHES explores the records of Britain’s scarcest & most disputed resource-land. She shows how records of land ownership,of land disputes,of enclosure, wealth & poverty are,in effect,a history of...
Timewatch
Remember Aberfan
- Broadcast
- 1996 (49 mins)
Timewatch visits small mining village in South Wales where in 1966 a coal tip collapsed and crashed down the hillside, burying everything in its path inc the school. Survivors and relatives talk about their...