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Hello, welcome to the history of England, episode 55, the history of many of you are part one.

Last week we left Bad King John trying to get his kingdom back into one of those six.

So by all accounts I should now be charging on with John's domestic politics,

the struggle to regain the empire, the struggle with the papacy, even Magna Carta.

But in fact, I'm not. What I am in fact going to do is a general survey of the history of

Europe up to and during the 12th century. Now, I know what some of you are thinking. Why

doesn't this bloke get on with it? First, he uses some feeble excuse to wobble on about

Utreme and now it's the absurdly potted history of Europe. I'm going to listen to Ray Harris

he's good or stick with Mike he's brilliant. Goodbye history of England so long.

Well don't blame me. Blame a listener called Harry who suggested the idea and various guys

on Facebook who thought it was a good idea. Yarno, Chad, Bethany, Ben, Peter, Jennifer and Monarch.

Now imagine they thought I'd do a quick survey in 10 minutes but they were wrong, very wrong as

it turns out. I also apologise to Mark. Mark we're talking fact explosion time.

Anyway, before I start, I should recommend a book which shall be appropriately a history of

medieval Europe from Constantine to St Louis by R. H. C. Davis. The book originates in the 50s

but has been regularly updated and is still the best. Davis used lots of individuals and

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