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Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of illuminated manuscripts that were custom-made for kings and explores the medieval world they reveal. Part 1: Ruling by the Book Janina begins her journey with the first Anglo-Saxon rulers to create a united England, encountering books in the British Library's Royal manuscripts collection which are over a thousand years old and a royal family tree which is five metres long. Janina finds out about a king who had a reputation for chasing nuns and reads a book created as a wedding gift for a ten-year-old prince. She roams from Westminster Abbey to other ancient English spiritual sites such as Winchester, St Albans and Malmesbury, and sees for herself how animal skins can be transformed into the finest vellum. Part 2: What a King Should Know Janina shows how medieval manuscripts gave power to the king and united the kingdom in an age of plague, warfare and rebellion, discovers that Edward III used the manuscripts he read as a boy to prepare him for his great victory at the battle of Crecy and reveals how a vigorous new national identity bloomed during the 100 Years War with France. In the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection Dr Ramirez finds out that magnificent manuscripts like the Bedford Hours, taken as war booty from the French royal family, were adapted for the education of English princes. She also explores how knowledge spread through a new form of book - the encyclopaedia. Part 3: Libraries Gave Us Power The story of the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection reaches its end with the last great flowering of illumination, in the magnificent courts of the Tudors. She investigates astrological texts created for Henry VII, and unwraps his will - still in its original, extravagantly-decorated velvet and gold cover. She hears music written for Henry VIII, which went unperformed for centuries| and reads love notes between the king and Anne Boleyn, written in the margins of a prayer book. Nina also visits Bruges, the source of many of the greatest manuscripts, where this medieval art form collided with the artistic innovations of the Renaissance. （转自mvgroup论坛）。「我們正在創造黑人歷史，就算我們不這麼做，我們的故事也將流傳後世！」拳拳到肉的饒舌歌詞來自年僅22歲的新銳饒舌歌手，貝拉．芭以生猛有力的倡議行動站上前線，凝聚社會大眾的力量。另一名年輕領導人則是年僅24歲的賈內邦蘇，加入黑人權益組織「黑人青年計畫100」後馬上成為在前線衝鋒陷陣的領導者。 本片跟隨兩位年輕黑人女性主義者、酷兒倡議者的腳步，如實紀錄芝加哥黑人運動的抗爭場景。為抗議被警察殺害的非裔年輕人博伊德、麥克唐納所遭受到的不公不義，當地市民團結起來上街示威。本片也紀錄BLM運動中，較少被提及的「#說出她的名字」行動，為提高黑人女性受害者的關注度，並重申黑人女性在主流媒體中長期被忽視的問題，勇敢發聲。。
