Welcome to the British History Podcast. My name is Jamie and this is episode 213.

Dangels, Peace and Shame.

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it for you. In related news, co-producer Z, myself and a few podcasty friends have put

together a pool on how many emails I'm going to get asking for tech support. And I'm not

going to tell you what number I picked, but I'll just say this. I'm counting on you guys

to hit that target.

With that out of the way, let's get back to history. Last time we left off, Alfred,

who we have been following since his earliest days, and whom we now know the most intimate

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