354 – The West, after Cnut

The British History Podcast

Jamie Jeffers

History, Documentary, Society & Culture, Courses, Education

4.6 • 6.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The death of Cnut and the fall of his near-Empire would obviously have impacts on his own dynasty. But while Harold was trying to secure England, Emma was trying to regain power, and poor Edward was trying to stay out of the whole mess, the political tsunami was roaring over the shores of the Irish […]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the British History Podcast.
0:06.8	My name is Jamie and this is Episode 354, The West, After Canute.
0:13.3	This show is ad-free to the member support and is a way of thanking members for keeping
0:16.7	the show independent.
0:17.7	I offer members only content, including extra episodes and rough transcripts, and you
0:21.2	can get instant access to all the members' extras by signing up for membership at the
0:24.6	British History Podcast.com for about the price of a lot tape per month.
0:28.0	And thank you very much to Jacob, Jeff, and Ellie for signing up already.
0:33.6	Now this episode is going to have a tremendous amount of words in it that are not in my
0:38.4	native tongue.
0:39.4	I have a very West Coast accent that you might have noticed, and there's going to be a
0:43.3	lot of sounds in here that don't come naturally to me.
0:46.9	A very kind listener named Martin Evans has been trying to help me improve my pronunciation,
0:52.2	but I just want to get this out here in the front that I'm really doing my best, but
0:57.1	some of these things might not sound how they would sound if you're talking to somebody
1:01.4	who natively spoke Welsh.
1:03.4	I should also point out that this story is going to jump about a bit, and I will be
1:07.2	pointing out when these events connect to the story they are already familiar with.
1:11.0	So that way hopefully you can play some of these events in context, and it will also
1:14.0	hopefully give you a more rounded and rich understanding of the period.
1:17.7	But this is going to come at you fast and furious, and the reason for that is because
1:21.8	we just don't have enough information to give you a fully fleshed out story the way
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