Royfield gave me a call one day out of the blue and he says, look, I'm worried about the amount of negativity going on in the country we both love and about its history. So, why don't we try and do something about it? Let's revive the things that made England. Let's talk about some of the things that makes us English, great or small, historical or cultural. And this time, let's do it on YouTube, so people can see just how pretty we are.

So I said, oh, go on then.

And lo, it is so.

And there is fun, laughter, and a bit of banter waiting for you.

And obviously great history and culture, too.

Please, please, please come along.

Come along to YouTube, watch, respond and comment.

We'll get some polls going and there can be a full and frank exchange of views.

You can find our new series on YouTube.

Search for the Things That Made England,

or you can just pick up the podcast feed as per normal.

See you there.

On the 17th of October, a couple of blokes came into the White Horse Tavern in Primrose Hill,

which was then a village just north of London. They told the landlord,

there was something pretty dodgy going on on the hedges outside his establishment.

They'd seen a stick and a pair of white gloves.

So they all went to have a look together.

Before or after they had a few to fortify themselves.

History does not relate.

Well, they fought through the mud and the bushes and they found the owner of the nice white gloves, and he was not in the best of Nick. They knew that, mainly because of the

sword sticking out of his chest, though oddly the sword had competition for the cause of death,

because of the strangle marks around his neck. Oh, and his neck was broken.

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