Britain's Most Historic Towns S2 E4 - Civil War Oxford

Britain's Most Historic Towns

Britain's Most Historic Towns S2 E4 - Civil War Oxford
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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.