A pair of teachers rise to the challenge of teaching medieval history in a village ravaged by the Black Death with the help of a box of specially selected resources. Head of History Iain Annat and NQT Ian Ochiltree are from Aylesbury High School in Buckinghamshire. This episode takes them to the leafy village of Ashwell, Hertfordshire, where they discover evidence from 14th Century of a community touched by the Bubonic plague. With the aid of objects from the Museum of London and the British Library, and help from local shepherd and historian David Short, they embark upon creating an investigative medieval mystery lesson.

Video Series: Teaching Out of the Box
Release Date 2008