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Walking Through History - Episode Guide

Season 1

The Birth of Industry

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Mar 30, 2013

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Tony takes a 40-mile walk through the glorious Peak District, along the Derwent Valley, where the world's industrial revolution was born

Frontline Dorset

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Apr 6, 2013

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Tony Robinson takes a series of walks through some of Britain's most historic and spectacular landscapes, revealing how Dorset became the unlikely frontline in the war against Hitler

The Tudor Way

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Apr 13, 2013

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Tony sets off on a 45 mile hike through the beautiful countryside of the Weald in Kent and the Downs of East Sussex to discover the area's rich and surprising Tudor heritage

Battle in the Glens

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Apr 20, 2013

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Tony Robinson takes on a tough four-day trek through the Kintail region of the west Scottish Highlands to discover the story of the Jacobite uprisings of the early 1700s

Season 2

The Path to Stonehenge

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Nov 23, 2013

The Path to Stonehenge

Tony heads off for a 45-mile walk across Wiltshire to tell the story of life and death in the last centuries of the Stone Age

Rome in the Lakes

Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Nov 30, 2013

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Thirty years after the Romans invaded Britain, they were ready to take on the Lake District. With the toughest landscape they had encountered, peopled by a rebellious tribe, it was no small task.

Smuggler's Cornwall

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Dec 14, 2013

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On a four-day trek along the stunning coastline between Plymouth and Falmouth, Tony Robinson finds out all about the Cornish smuggling trade, from why it was so widespread, to how it ended

Season 3

The Way to Wigan Pier

Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Feb 8, 2014

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Tony Robinson walks from Liverpool to Wigan, tracing the story of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal's chaotic construction and its dramatic impact on the development of Lancashire

The Dark Age of Northumbria

Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Feb 15, 2014

The Dark Age of Northumbria

Two newly uncovered holy wells, caves, Saxon palaces, ancient hill forts and Viking graves transport Tony Robinson back 1300 years to a strange and mysterious time of turmoil: the Dark Ages.

Tony walks from Melrose in the Scottish Borders to Holy Island off the coast of Northumberland, exploring the history of Northumbria. Over five days, he goes on the trail of one of the ancient kingdom's greatest sons - Saint Cuthbert. Through the Tweed Valley and across the Cheviot Hills, it's a journey through a murky history laden with myth. However, by investigating the communities, power bases and landscape of seventh-century Northumbria, Tony aims to understand the pagan land in which Cuthbert spread his simple brand of Celtic Christianity.

North Norfolk

Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Feb 22, 2014

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Tony Robinson travels along the beautiful North Norfolk coast, examining why it was so unaffected by the dynamic Victorian developments that changed other parts of the country so much

Season 4

Bronte Country

Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Oct 26, 2014

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Tony Robinson tours the Yorkshire landscapes that inspired the Bronte sisters, discovering that Haworth in the 1820s was very different from the tourist town it is today

Victoria and Albert's Highland Fling

Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Nov 2, 2014

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In the Cairngorms, Tony Robinson discovers how Queen Victoria and Prince Albert fell in love with the Highlands and shaped some Scottish traditions

The Norman Conquest of Pembrokeshire

Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Nov 8, 2014

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Tony Robinson visits Pembrokeshire to see why it feels English, even though it's over 100 miles from the border. He traces the Norman conquest that turned it into 'Little England beyond Wales'.

Nazi Occupation: The Channel Islands

Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Nov 15, 2014

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Tony Robinson takes a four-day walk through Guernsey and Jersey, finding out what life was like there for the five years of German occupation in World War II

King John's Ruin: The Peak District

Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Nov 22, 2014

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In Sherwood Forest and the Peak District, Tony Robinson explores the story of King John, the hapless monarch who stumbled from one crisis to another

England's Last Battle: The West Country

Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Nov 29, 2014

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Tony Robinson hikes up from Dorset's Jurassic Coast to the Somerset Levels, in the footsteps of the dashing young Duke of Monmouth, who led a revolution against James II

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