Before the Black Death of 1348 the language of power in England was Anglo-Norman French. The plague changed everything.

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00:00 A catastrophic plague
00:57 The eve of destruction
08:16 The end of the world
10:59 The aftermath
16:18 Turning back the clocks
20:53 Revolution in the air
24:11 English is back

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