#168 Invasions & Why The British Invaded Iceland (Part 2)

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🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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This week we’re looking at various invasions and subsequent occupations through history; we’ve got Nordic allied invasions in WW2 (including Iceland!), the Norman occupation of Sicily and the story of how Gibraltar became British!

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0:00.0	Oh, what a time is now on Patreon. You can get main feed episodes before everyone else, ad free,
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0:28.5	Hello and welcome to part two of occupations.
0:31.0	Let's get on with the show.
0:31.8	Yeah. Now, if you're from Britain, the chances are you probably think of the Norman, whenever you think of the Normans, that is.
0:50.6	Which is how often?
0:51.8	Which is, for me, twice a month. Let's just drill down into that. What might be the situation when you're thinking about them? If I go back to visit my mum and dad, I pass a few Norman castles. Yeah. And then I do think about the Normans, genuinely. And your next neighbour is called Norman. You see him about once a month.
1:27.6	He's actually called Norman the Conquer. That's the mad thing. I mean, if it was William the Conquer, it would be perfect. But it's almost spot on. So whenever you think like me about the Normans twice a month, the person you think of is usually Duke William, the man who invaded England in 1066 and became William the Conqueror. You might know as well. Now, I didn't,
1:32.8	I must admit, I'm quite good at sort of parliamentary stuff or so I thought, but I didn't know this.
1:38.6	The when legislation is passed by the British Parliament, it is announced in Norman French.
1:45.4	What?
1:46.3	La Roy Le Verre.
1:47.0	That's a great fact.
1:48.0	The king wills it.
1:50.3	So for a long time he was Lorraine, the Queen.
1:53.6	But no, no, no.
1:54.3	As a sort of legacy of the Norman conquest and England being invaded in 1066, it's, yeah, when legislation is passed by the British Parliament, it is announced in Norman French.
2:03.9	That is a great fact.
2:06.2	Yeah, yeah, yeah, really good fact.
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