Discover the terrifying diseases that people feared most, the extraordinary scale of the Black Death and how its aftermath helped transform England’s social order. Meet a famous medieval ‘traveller’, and discover how his stories of distant lands and strange peoples helped shape European ideas about the wider world.
You’ll also hear how medieval kings gradually lost their unchecked power, as Magna Carta and Parliament began holding monarchs to account, and how learning to read could mean the difference between life and death.