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🗓️ 7 May 2012
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A man was needed to guide England through a civil war and minority. So who do you think they picked? The answer was of course William the Marshal who was now a very old man by the standards of the time. The Earl of Chester was politely asked, given the size of his holdings, but there was no holding William. In the two and a half years left to him, William was able to throw Louis out of the England and establish Henry as the rightful king. But he left an awful lot more for his successors to do.
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the History of England, episode 60, the Regency of William the Marshall. |
0:26.1 | Every week I'm suggesting an audio book to listen to courtesy of Audible. |
0:30.7 | I can recommend Audible with all my heart. It's wonderful having something read to you. |
0:35.6 | It takes the mind of pain like cycling or boredom like ironing. |
0:40.1 | There's the price. Audible is so much more affordable than audio CDs. There's the massive |
0:44.2 | range over 60,000 titles so there's something for everyone. |
0:48.4 | And you can get a free audio book when you sign up for a free trial with absolutely no commitment. |
0:54.1 | What I ask is that you follow the link from my website www.TheHistoryVingland.com so they |
1:01.3 | know that you heard about it from me. |
1:04.4 | This week's audio book was recommended to me by a listener, looks thoroughly fascinating |
1:09.0 | and was well reviewed in the Sunday Times. It's in the shadow of the sword, the battle |
1:14.0 | for global empire and the end of the ancient world by Tom Holland. It tells of the end of |
1:19.4 | the ancient world and the extraordinary rise of Islam in little less than a hundred years. |
1:24.4 | I'm told Tom Holland has a talent for making history exciting, which is what you need in |
1:28.7 | an audio book of course, and it's an amazing subject, so this sounds like quite a winner. |
1:35.5 | And so we come to the Plantagenets this week, which is really exciting, |
1:39.1 | and the reign of one of England's most ignored monarchs Henry III. |
1:43.4 | Really, finding material on this chap is quite a struggle. |
1:47.0 | Most recently he's been written about by an engaging historian called David Carpenter, |
1:51.0 | he's great, but many of his books are out of print, and even secondhand they're now so |
1:55.7 | expensive that you literally have to sell one of the kids if you want to buy them. |
2:00.6 | I found it was a good swap actually, but obviously that's not for everybody. |
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