Ruling by the Book
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jan 9, 2012
In the British Library, Dr. Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of illuminated manuscripts of the first Anglo-Saxon rulers to create a united England.
Season 1
What a King Should Know
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Jan 16, 2012
Dr. Janina Ramirez shows how medieval illuminated manuscripts gave power to the king and united the kingdom in an age of plague, warfare and rebellion.
Libraries Gave Us Power
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Jan 23, 2012
The story of the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection reaches its end with the last great flowering of illumination, in the courts of the Tudors.