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Boils and Buboes

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

First broadcast: 29 Aug 2002

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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.

First broadcast: 15 Aug 2002

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The Reformation

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

First broadcast: 08 Aug 2002

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