Secrets of the Castle

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Documentary, Historical

November 25th, 2014

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Secrets of the Castle Season 1 Episodes

Season 1

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Beyond the Castle Walls

December 17th, 2014

The Team take a look at the castle's place in the wider medieval world. 13th century Europe was a busy, developing, connected place, where work, trade, pilgrimages and Crusades gave people ...

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The Castle's Community of Skills

December 9th, 2014

The team delve deeper into the secrets of the skilled communities who built medieval castles. The stonemasons working on the castle walls are dependent on blacksmiths, whose metalwork was magical to the medieval mind-set.

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Inside the Castle

December 2nd, 2014

Ruth, Peter and Tom enter the surprisingly colorful world of medieval interior design. The castles that we see today are in fact scarred by centuries of decay. Most of their original roofs,...

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Defending the Castle

November 25th, 2014

Ruth, Peter and Tom look at the ingenious features medieval castle-builders came up with to withstand attack from an ever more formidable array of siege engines.

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Why Build a Castle?

November 18th, 2014

The team arrives at Guédelon, in the Burgundy region of France, to join the world's biggest archaeological experiment - a 25 year project to build a medieval castle from scratch, using only...