Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England episode 280. The land was never so

full. Before I start could I please ask for your help? Acaster and I would like you please

to fill out a survey if you wouldn't mind terribly. I would like to claim some terribly

altruistic motive about improving the world to seek out new worlds and boldly go, but sadly

it is not. It is so that a cast and I can seek out new advertisers. Does not mean there

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Now if you need to square this with the conscience, it will definitely be helping support me and

the podcast. The survey says it takes less than two minutes. Personally I think that's

a marketing two minutes and actually you're looking at about seven and a half to be fair,

but certainly no more than that. So I hope very much you will spare the time. Oh and in

thanks I have put up two prizes for a prize draw. You can then enter if you complete the

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Now then as promised let us take a break from all the sparkle and drama of national politics

and get our collective hands dirty in the muck of the common man that daily grind the struggle

for survival. Let us scratch our heads at the theories of economic change and marvel

at the reformation of manners that has walked the streets of parish politics. Or you might

want to skip on a few episodes, I leave it to you. I must say that I have been feeling guilty

for ages about my relentless focus on politics and religion without so much as a sideways

glance at a farthing galor, a doublet and hose. But as I came to write the following stuff

in episodes I did experience actually a wave of deja vu and figure that I have maybe

included more of the economic and social stuff than actually I thought I had sprinkled

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