Welcome to the British History Podcast.

My name is Jamie.

And today we're having a bonus episode.

We've reached 3,000 likes on Facebook, and as I promised, every thousand likes we get,

we'll get a new bonus episode.

And so the episode that I picked for this one is going to be the historical analysis of

whether or not King Arthur existed.

It's going to be the first part of that series, and the series is ongoing on the members

feed.

So I hope you like it, and let's get this going.

So this is actually going to be a bit of a controversial series because people have

very strong feelings on Arthur.

And I think, actually, that this might be more controversial than my thing on the early

life of St. Patrick.

The attachment that people feel to the once-in-future King is pretty impressive.

We have books, movies, video games, comic books, plays, songs, paintings, interpretive

dance, our obsession with Arthur stretches into virtually every medium available.

And to complicate matters, there isn't just one Arthur.

Even if we're looking at just the myths, there isn't a single unified image of Arthur.

The writers all have their own take on him, and as the centuries pass, the stories become

more fantastical and elaborate, but also more divergent.

And if we really want to kick this into high gear and make it even more troublesome,

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