Documenting the Middle Ages on Television

Who is affected

The general public, through media outreach

Narrative

Professor Bartlett has written and presented two television series on medieval subjects for the BBC: Inside the Medieval Mind (four one-hour episodes, BBC4, 2008) and The Normans (three one-hour episodes, BBC2, 2010). Already one of the world’s leading medieval historians, he has taken his work to a much wider audience through these series. Impact in this case is primarily on cultural life, through the exposure of millions of viewers to a historical documentary about the Middle Ages. The BBC’s estimate of their value is re-emphasized by the recent completion of a third series, The Plantagenets, to be screened in autumn 2013.

Impact status	Open
Category of impact	Cultural, Creative Impact