Britain's Oldest Laws
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Joanna McCunn joined me on the podcast to discuss the history of some of Britain's oldest and strangest laws. From shooting Welshmen with longbows, to Oliver Cromwell banning mince pies, we also discussed 19th century policing and vagrancy acts.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, welcome to Dance No Sisteria. I'm just in the |
| 0:02.4 | lee of a smoke stack on a 1950s container ship. |
| 0:05.6 | It was built in Germany to pile the iron gray seas between |
| 0:09.6 | the northern Germany and Heligoland, the island, which has been the source of |
| 0:14.0 | much controversy, much competition and the source for a few podcasts over the years. |
| 0:18.2 | Go back and check those out. It was then sold to the Brits and we now use it |
| 0:21.9 | to go from north to the island of Lundy in the Bristol channel. It's a howling |
| 0:25.8 | Wesley Gail and the Bristol channel. This is the last passenger |
| 0:28.6 | carrying passage of the year and I can see why because it's pretty grim. |
| 0:32.6 | This podcast features Joanna McCun. She is a brilliant legal scholar. |
| 0:37.2 | She is at the University of Bristol and she's here to tell us all about |
| 0:41.1 | Britain's old laws, the bizarre laws that people think |
| 0:44.8 | still in existence in Britain and frankly might be who knows. |
| 0:48.2 | She's got her kind of top 10. So this is Britain's ancient, ancient |
| 0:52.1 | legal code. So fascinating episode. I love this one. |
| 0:54.8 | She's brilliant. Now if you're interested in Medieval history, |
| 0:57.7 | early modern history, any history, frankly, please get a history hit. |
| 1:00.6 | Dot TV. It's my new Netflix for history. If you use the code Trafalgar. |
| 1:03.9 | It's still Trafalgar week. Trafalgar, you get a month for free and then you get |
| 1:06.9 | next three months. There's one pound euro or dollar for each |
| 1:09.3 | those three months. By which stage of days there'll be lengthening again and this |
| 1:12.4 | mighty ship will once again be heading out to taking holiday makers to the |
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