All About the History of England

The History of England

David Crowther

Europe, Queen, England, Medieval, Politics, Royal, History, Parliament, English, King, Modern, Early Modern, Monarchy

4.8 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2010

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

This is my chronological retelling of the story of the English in regular chunks. It’s been going since Christmas Day 2010, so there’s enough to keep you off the streets for a while and hanging around the local shopping precinct. But look, you can dip in and you can dip out too.

There's all the great trends, events, and drama you’d expect, all set in the context and attitudes of their time; and on that same vein, as often as possible, the series takes some time to set England’s history in the context of her neighbours and the shared culture of Europe. The great and the good are there, because that’s important, but we also walk the highways and byways of ordinary lives and hear their voices - religion, culture, making a living, society and how people lived, globalisation, law - all that stuff

You can listen from start to finish; but do did in and out if you wish. Here's a guide:

We start with 31 episodes on one of our foundation stories, the Anglo Saxons.
Then there’s 37 episodes on the Normans and Angevins, 1066 to 1215, Hastings to Magna Carta basically.
The Plantagenets are next up, to the usurpation of the throne by those dastardly or saintly Lancastrians – tick as appropriate
From episode 134 we have a real hooley – the Wars of the Roses. We did have fun with the squabbling chaos, death and destruction, very much like a normal family gathering at Christmas really, without the drowning in a VAT of malmesy wine thing hopefully, and we devoted 62 episodes to it all - 1399 to the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 basically.
From episode 196, we are then on to the Tudors, and that’s a monster, 137 episodes on the Tudors so if you are a Tudor lover fill up your boots.
We then reach my personal favourite, the Stuart age at Episode 325, starting the British Revolutions at episode 369

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0:00.0	in the history. Hello everyone and welcome to the history of England a trailer to tell you what
0:27.2	about it my name is David Crowther a lover of history of all shapes and sizes and
0:32.4	this is my podcast it might be this day it might be today
0:36.3	that you're just about to embark on the history of England podcast or thinking of doing
0:40.6	so and some advice would be sensible before you step over the
0:43.7	threshold. The first and best advice in the words of Douglas Adams is don't
0:48.2	panic. So what is it? Well it's a chronological retelling of the story of the English in regular chunks.
0:54.0	It's been going since Christmas Day 2010.
0:57.0	Not quite sure what the rest of the family was doing on Christmas Day, but there you go.
1:00.0	So there is enough to keep you off the streets for a while or hanging around the local shopping precinct.
1:05.0	But look, you can dip in and you can dip out too, so don't panic.
1:10.0	What will you find in this mansion of many rooms? Well, there are all the great trends,
1:15.4	events and drama you'll expect, and I take great care to see the drama in the context and
1:20.2	attitudes of their time, which is only fair, and I hope the best way to really understand what's going on and why.
1:27.0	On the same vein, as often as possible, the series takes a little bit of time out to set England's history in the context for neighbors and that shared
1:34.7	culture of Europe. And of course we're starting to get global as well as I write.
1:39.6	While we're on it, I do so love the historiography of how different generations of historians have interpreted our story
1:46.1	so there's quite a bit of that as well here and there to boot.
1:50.5	Also the great and the good are there, because that's important.
1:54.0	But we also walk the highways and byways of ordinary lives and hear their voices too.
1:59.0	Religion, culture, making a living, society, how people lived, globalisation globalization law all that sort of stuff because that is most people's history most of the time
2:07.6	Most anyway
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