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18 plus conditions apply, play responsibly, not available in Northern Ireland. Hello everyone, welcome back to the history of England, episode 422,

Healing and Settling.

Last time we completed the story of Scotland and Ireland's time within the Commonwealth

and in so doing, I broke a sacred promise.

To talk to you about the First Protectorate Parliament, and I'm heartily sorry, and

have duly thrashed myself with the nettles and weeds of regret and repentance, and in this

episode, we can write that wrong at last.

For reference to prosperity, though, just for the moment, this is the first episode of 2025 and so I wonder if you would mind me sharing the 2024 stats.

I'm so sorry, indulge me. I come from the school that says if you can't measure it, there's simply no point in doing it in the first place, which I know is wrong and lies at the very heart of every ill from which

the society currently suffers, but I just can't help it. I could inflict the monthly rainfall data

in Oxfordshire for every year since 1767 on you. So in fact, I'm being merciful. Basically, in

2024, we have 32 episodes, not including shedcasts, of course.

This is a total of about 24 solid hours of listening, and we covered 11 years, which means an average

of 3.4 months per episode. In 2023, we'd only covered eight years. So look, I am picking up the pace.

Right, that's it. That's all the stats I'm going to give you.

Now then, I was going to take you to Stonehenge in November 1654.

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