Mark Holinshed's History Channel

History Documentary  Channel
Rediscovering the path from the Birth of Jesus Christ to the Reformation and the Break With Rome. The arrival of Christianity in Britain, Joseph of Arimathea, ancient  trade routes, tin and the Roman empire. Along the way, Emperor Constantine the Great, the Roman Catholic Church, the arrival of the Anglo Saxons and Saint Augustine, the the Vikings, Dark Ages of the papacy and the Norman Papal Union that led to Hastings and 1066. 

The rising power of the church and the battles with secular rulers, the wars between Church and State, the White Ship Disaster precipitated the period known as the Anarchy, East against West, Brittonic against Roman Catholic Christianity. Henry II and the murder of Thomas Becket, King John - excommunicated, Henry III - the best fried the church ever had? The Crusading Kings. Three Edwards, a hammer a poker and one hundred years of war... all the way , plague, Lollards and all to the reign of Henry VIII, and the Reformation.