A History of Britain is a BBC documentary series written and presented
by Simon Schama, first transmitted in the United Kingdom from 30
September 2000.
A study of the history of the British Isles,
each of the 15 episodes allows Schama to examine a particular period and
tell of its events in his own style. All the programmes are of 59
minutes' duration and were broadcast over three series, ending 18 June
2002.
5. "King death" Broadcast 28 October 2000 and covering 1348–1500. It took only six years for the plague to ravage the British Isles. Its impact was to last for generations. But from the ashes of this trauma an unexpected and unique class of Englishmen emerged.
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