Hello everyone and welcome to the history of England, episode 259, Camping Time.

Before I start, I'd like to tell you about a podcast that I think you're going to like.

It's called The Brain Food Show and it's a podcast by the team that also does the wildly popular.

Today I find out YouTube channel and when I say wildly, I mean wildly. Simon from the podcast

got in touch, so I went and had a look and it's got a great upbeat style, it's got a bit of banter

and really interesting topics most importantly. So what the podcast does is to go into depth

on historical curiosities. So for example, stuff like how famed and lightenment think of Voltaire

made his fortune by helping to rig the lottery and then the time that Julius Caesar was captured

by pirates and all the hilarity that ensued from that. Anyway, give them a go. Search for The Brain

Food Show with Simon Whistler available on iTunes or wherever you get your podcast from.

Now I'm aware also that the title of this episode sounds as though it is sponsored by the Caravan

Club. I would be proud to be so sponsored. Come and talk to me Caravan Club because I'm a

lover of the things having spent a reasonable portion of the holidays of my youth inside one.

But this episode is not about that kind of camping or indeed about the kind of camping where

you keep tripping over guy ropes when you get caught short in the middle of the night and head for

the bushes. This is about rebellious camping, performance camping about camping of the mind

and spirit. Of course, I don't want to oversell it because every day here at the history of England

is a day of drama and fireworks, a constant and veritable celebration of drama and fireworks. In fact,

this person having their innards torn out, that community having their religious traditions

trampled on, these monarchs doing unspeakable things. So look, I realise that the pageant of history

through which you are dancing with me sets a high bar for rum going on and your senses may have

become somewhat weird and deadened. Oh, please, not another burning. Rebellion, you're so bored,

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