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Villages by the Sea

Series 5: 5. Bucklers Hard

In Hampshire, archaeologist Ben Robinson investigates how a tiny village, originally meant to be a free port to process sugar, became a bustling naval shipyard.\n\nBen learns that three ships built here would lead Nelson to victory at Trafalgar. Then, in an almost untouched 18th-century labourer’s cottage, Ben gets a feel for just how basic life was for hardworking rural families 250 years ago.

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