Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Dr Ian Mortimer explores what it would have been like to live in a world without a means of accurately measuring time.

Dr Ian Mortimer is the presenter of our new HistoryExtra Academy series on medieval life, exploring the realities of the 14th-century – from A to Z.

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