Time Team's Tony Robinson: A Life in History
Gone Medieval
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The Bottom Up View of History
I think you can only really get a vision of what was going on by looking at how people changed. And I think that whole notion of dissent is a very important one. We only get it very occasionally flaring up in various moments in history, don't we? It seems to come out of nowhere. People have always been carrying these things around them. They've probably been expressing themselves sometimes in times of dissent. But there are always as it were these fractures in civilization where suddenly this stuff which people have held onto for hundreds if not thousands of years comes up through the cracks and flares up. That kind of social change has been happening with that speed I would suggest throughout the whole of history
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