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Hello and welcome to We Are History, the most serious and respected history podcast on the

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Today, Angela Barnes, what are we doing?

Oh, John.

Well, we had a little, we did an episode, didn't we, a couple of weeks ago, about the Battle

of Hastings.

Yes, and what was our main take out of it.

Our main take about it was be a good, wine bad, I think, essentially.

What's that?

The bloody Normans impose snobby wine on the English.

And we still go to a bloody posh party and they go red or white.

And John's there going how would jackie feel

after i went and got some cans of lager from the from the off license would she think it's

acceptable the answer was no i well the answer is yes if you'd ask me because i do this we're both

beer drinkers more than one drinkers we love a beer and so we thought why not do an episode

about the history of beer particularly the history of beer in Britain, because it's so entwined

in our history. I think the research needed for this. I have researched this like no other,

Angela. The minor error we have made, John, is recording this episode at 11 o'clock in the morning

you speak for yourself the book I read on this was a history of English ale and beer by

H.A. Moncton this was published in 1966 and it said average prices today are one and sixpence for a pint of draft beer in a pub.

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