Alice Loxton is walking through history

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Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

When Queen Eleanor died, her husband - Edward I - ordered that 12 enormous crosses be built along the route her body had travelled back to London. Some survive today. Historian Alice Loxton decided to walk that route on the same days. Which sadly for her, was December. Alice tells Hannah about that journey and her new book Eleanor: A 200-Mile Walk in Search of England's Lost Queen, as well as history on the socials and the hidden stories on our own doorsteps. More information on how to support us here: https://www.patreon.com/StandardIssue Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Standard issue for all women.
0:02.5	Hello, Hannah here and welcome to Friday's podcast.
0:06.4	More information on what lies within in a bit.
0:10.0	I'm just going to tell you first what's coming up next week.
0:12.8	There will be BT, obviously, and outside the box.
0:17.2	Plus, in Rated or Dated, there's another change of schedule as we will be watching
0:22.3	1985's Santa Claus the movie rather than dances with wolves.
0:27.8	I'm sure there's a good joke about switching from one to the other, but it currently
0:31.9	escapes me. Maybe I'll have thought about it by next week. And if that's not incentive
0:37.0	enough to make you listen, please get a load of this.
0:40.6	Jen is going to be chatting to Sydney Raymond, Secretary General of Women's Euro Geneva,
0:46.2	2025, about seeing the potential in women's football and working with lots of other women.
0:53.9	Meanwhile, Mick is going to be chatting to Bisman Niqui from Generation Rent.
0:58.9	That's going to be interesting.
1:00.6	But on today's podcast in which I am talking to historian Alex Loxton,
1:07.5	absolutely delightful historian, Alice Loxton, about her latest book, Eleanor,
1:12.6	a 200-bar walk in search of England's lost queen.
1:17.2	Now, Alice is very big on social media, so you might be more familiar with her than you are
1:22.0	with Eleanor, so I'm not going to explain who Alice is, because if you don't already know,
1:25.7	there's that whole interview coming up.
1:27.2	I am going to tell you some more background on Eleanor.
1:30.3	She was the Queen of England, the wife of Edward I, and died in Nottinghamshire in 2019.
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