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Time Team's Tony Robinson: A Life in History

Gone Medieval

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The Importance of History

I mazed last year for Channel 4 what I thought was the beginnings of a really great series which didn't get the ratings and has totally disappeared. It's called Museum of Us each week I would go to a different street in a different town and fire up the local people with the history of their street. We would talk about them they would find iconic things at the end of the street. The local museum would build a pop-up museum just for 24 hours on the bottom of their street everyone could go there would be items in it like the dog collar of someone's favorite dog and a cannonball that they found in their back garden. Because that to me is really the joy of what

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