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Boils and Buboes

Melvyn Bragg examines how an alderman saved the plague ravaged town of Salisbury in 1627.

The Plantation of Ireland in The Counties of Armagh and Tyrone

Melvyn Bragg investigates the lot of native Irish workers at the end of Elizabethan era.

The Reformation

Melvyn Bragg investigates the effect of the English Reformation on ordinary people.

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