Watch Britain's Most Historic Towns Season 2 Episode 4 Online
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- COUNTRIES: United Kingdom
- Subtitles: English
Alice Roberts explores the history of Oxford during the Civil War, when the city became a power base for the royalist forces and a rival capital for nine years of conflict. Aerial archaeologist Ben Robinson discovers why the city was such a good strategic position, while Alice takes up Charles I's favourite sport and learns to fire a 17th-century musket.