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Britain's Most Historic Towns

3 Season
19 Episode

Britain's Most Historic Towns - Season 2 Episode 4 Civil War Oxford


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45 minutes 2024 HD

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Alice Roberts explores the history of Oxford during the Civil War, when the city became a power base for the royalist forces and a rival capital for nine years of conflict. Aerial archaeologist Ben Robinson discovers why the city was such a good strategic position, while Alice takes up Charles I's favourite sport and learns to fire a 17th-century musket.

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