Hey Kitty, time to eat your profits. Good kitty, look how fat you've gotten. That's the sound of some

workplace pension providers paying their shareholders instead of you. At people's pension,

we don't have shareholders to pamper. That's why over the last five years, we've given

£100 million back to our members instead.

Oh, you've broken the cat flap again.

People's pension.

Now that's a pension with purpose.

Visit peoplespension.com.uk forward slash pays you. You. Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the Agora Podcast Network.

I'm so glad you're here with me today. I'm your host, Heather Tesco. I'm a storyteller who makes

history accessible because I believe it's a pathway to understanding who we are, our place in the

universe, and being more deeply in touch with our own humanity. And has there been a time in your

lifetime where it's been more necessary to be more deeply in touch with humanity than it is right now?

I would venture to say not in my lifetime. This is episode 147. I'm going to do something a little different again. I'm trying out new formats. I'm trying out new setup. Some of you might have noticed there was

music for a while in the background. Some of you loved that. Some of you didn't love it. I'm just

playing around at the moment. I'm kind of going through, you know, like a podcast personal

growth, period. So anyway, this is something new. A few weeks ago, I did an episode,

another new thing, looking at just one year, 1527. The feedback on that was great. So I'm going

to be doing another one in a couple of weeks looking at another important year, but I won't

tell you what yet. But that episode was inspired by Bill Bryson's book where he

chronicled one summer in American history, 1927. And because Bill Bryson is inspirational of all good

things, I'm going to take another idea that he did in his book, At Home, a short history of

private life, where he examined

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