Castle Builders

Meet the Castle Builders - the masons and laborers who did the hard work; the geniuses of design and structural engineering who imagined these medieval mega-structures; and the kings and barons who commissioned them.

This is the story of castles under attack. The Medieval journey from bows and arrows to gunpowder, with developments like trebuchet and cannon, meant engineers were always making advancements in defense construction.

The changing role of castles, from military fortresses to places of symbolism and fantasy; Burg Eltz; Loire in France; the 19th century gothic revival reconstruction of Cardiff Castle.