Everything you ever wanted to know about the Normans, but were afraid to ask

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🗓️ 29 March 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In a bonus Sunday episode, Marc Morris, author of an acclaimed history of the Norman Conquest, tackles some of the big questions about William the Conqueror and his followers, several of which were submitted by our listeners and social media fans. Historyextra.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.1	Hello and welcome to The History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.
1:00.4	I'm Ellie Corthorne. In the first of what we hope might become a short regular series,
1:06.9	we're asking leading historians to answer the questions you've always wanted to know about some of the big topics in history.
1:12.0	Follow us on Facebook and Twitter at History Extra to see what subjects we're covering and which experts we have lined up. First up, we've got Mark Morris talking about the
1:16.6	Normans and the Norman Conquest. Mark is a leading medieval historian who's written books
1:21.9	on both the Norman Conquest and William I. Our content director, David Musgrove, who also has a book coming out this autumn,
1:29.6	co-written by Michael Lewis on the Bayo Tapestry, put the questions to Mark.
1:34.7	Okay, so we are trying something a bit different here with this bonus history extra podcast.
1:41.2	It's a new thing we're going to do, which is everything you wanted to know about
1:45.9	a topic, but we're afraid to ask, or something along those lines, where we were going to ask
1:50.7	leading historians to pick important topics from history and answer the questions that you
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