Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the Agora Podcast Network.

I'm your host, Heather Tesco, and 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 so much more deeply in touch with our own humanity.

This is episode 156, and we're going to talk about something I haven't talked about yet in depth, which is kind of weird. And it's the wool trade.

So as you're putting on your woolen sweaters, or if you have a fun Christmas sweater,

we're going to go back and talk about this trade in cloth and textiles and raw materials

that basically kept England going for over 300 years or so.

So we're going to chat about that in a minute. But first, admin and announcements.

The holidays are coming up. I've got some amazing holiday gift ideas. So to start with,

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It makes me smile so much.

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Now, second, TudorCon tickets for 2021, because, you know,

seriously, we all need to start planning some fun stuff after 2020, right? And they're going to

be discounted for Black Friday, starting on Friday because I'm old school like that.

So check it out at Englandcast.com slash TudorCon 2021. Three days of Tudor

talks, music, bonding with your new best tutor friends and fun in beautiful Lancaster County,

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