- All Timelines
- Britain - Changing Lives
- c.1066 |Medieval Manor
- c.1180 |Medieval Minds
- c.1250 |Medieval Towns
- c.1320 |Monastic Life
- c.1348 |The Black Death
- c.1420 |Yeoman England
- c.1520 |The Reformation
- c.1588 |Shakespeare's World
- c.1612 |Pendle Witches
- c.1775 |Iron and Industry
- c.1785 |Factories and Machines
- c.1810 |Urban Slums
- c.1834 |Tolpuddle Martyrs
- c.1853 |The Vision of Titus Salt
- c.1875 |Cities Transformed
- c.1910 |A Golden Age?
- c.1984 |Death of Industry
- Britain - Rulers & Ruled
- c.1066 |Norman Conquest
- c.1170 |Church & Crown
- c.1215 |Magna Carta
- c.1280 |First Parliaments
- c.1381 |Peasants Revolt
- c.1470 |The Pastons
- c.1528 |Henry VIII & Church
- c.1649 |Civil War
- c.1658 |The Wheel of History
- c.1688 |"Glorious" Revolution
- c.1789 |Rights of Man
- c.1819 |Peterloo Massacre
- c.1842 |The Chartists
- c.1867 |Dawn of Democracy
- c.1893 |Rise of Labour
- c.1903 |Votes for Women
- c.1919 |Century of Change
- Britain - Nations & Empire
- Smallpox Through Time
- c.1045BC |Face of a Pharaoh
- c.1562 |Arsenic and Old Lace
- c.1617 |Smallpox in America
- c.1711 |Child Pox
- c.1721 |Experiment in Newgate
- c.1758 |The Speckled Monster
- c.1796 |Jenner's Breakthrough
- c.1800 |The Vaccine Triumphant
- c.1806 |Ox-faced Boys
- c.1853 |Public Health & Protest
- c.1896 |Epidemic on Camera
- c.1967 |Global Action
- c.2010 |Smallpox Today
- The American West
- Britain - Changing Lives
- This Module
- 400 years after the Becket story, another King Henry took on the power of the Church - and won. This module explores the background to Henry VIII's split with Rome. It explores the social consequences of the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the Reformation - and it shows how, politically, Henry had opened a can of worms.
- Credits
History of Britain - Rulers & Ruled
An exploration of the dramatic power struggle between Church and State in the years of the English Reformation. (4.5 mins)
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8.Civil War
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1640 - 1649
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Chapter Breakdown
- 1. 400 years after Henry II's struggle with Becket, Henry VIII takes on the Church - and wins.
- 2. Henry wants a divorce - and the Church of England splits from the Church of Rome.
- 3. The sale of Church lands (the greatest land grab since the Norman Conquest) hands more power to the gentry.
- 4. New relationships - between God and man, between King and people.
Picture Viewer
Location details
Hampton Court Palace (where the module begins) needs no introduction.
The next section - the rood screen - was filmed at St Michael's Church in Copford Green in Essex. It's a wonderful 12th century church with Byzantine-style wall-paintings, uncovered from behind a coating of 16th century whitewash.
The final section was filmed at Riveaux Abbey in North Yorkshire, one of the most awesome and impressive ruined abbeys in England.
(Although, for my money, if you're in the locality you should also nip to Fountains Abbey which is even more wonderful - a little bit of Cistercian heaven...).
DVD
DVD Coming Soon!
We hope to release a new DVD pack containing all the video modules for the British timelines including 'Changing Lives', 'Rulers & Ruled', and 'Empire & Nations'.
