In Michael Wood’s Story of England. Michael tells the story of one community through the whole of English history. Using documents, landscape, buildings, science and archaeology, and with the help of the villagers themselves, he explores the lives of the ordinary people against the backdrop of national events across more than a thousand years. The place is Kibworth in Leicestershire, in the heart of England. Through this one location, rich in documents and stories, the series chronicles the story of England from the beginning. Through the eyes of one community, Story of England charts the journey of the ordinary people through time, and shows them struggle with invasion and catastrophe and embrace innovation and opportunity. It’s a journey that sees the development of our language and laws, our rights and freedoms, our ways of doing and seeing. In the Story of England we see how they became us.