Chronicle (1966)

Season 1973

Series tracing new developments in historical research.

Where to Watch Season 1973

8 Episodes

Longbow
E1
Episode 1Longbow
Sir Mortimer: Digging Up People
E2
Episode 2Sir Mortimer: Digging Up People
Sir Mortimer: The Viceroy Sent For Me
E3
Episode 3Sir Mortimer: The Viceroy Sent For Me
Prize Exhibit
E4
Episode 4Prize Exhibit
The Mystery of the Etruscans
E5
Episode 5The Mystery of the Etruscans
The Ape Man That Never Was
E6
Episode 6The Ape Man That Never WasChronicle reports on the controversy surrounding the bones found in Piltdown, Sussex some 70 years ago that some claimed were the "missing link" between man and ape.
Storm in the Peninsula
E7
Episode 7Storm in the PeninsulaChronicle tells of the events in Spain in the war against Napoleon - a war that gave us the word 'guerrilla' and the works of the artist Goya.
Search and Discovery
E8
Episode 8Search and DiscoveryThis month Chronicle, introduced by Kenneth Hudson, shows the contrast between urban and rural archaeology. At Stone Age Skara Brae and Roman Vindolanda, where the finds are of whalebone tools and Roman writing tablets, the pressures and problems are not created by developers wanting the land. At Dunwich the threat is from the sea. But in Bath, Lincoln and London it's not only archaeology but the whole fabric of our historic cities which is being destroyed.