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History Extra podcast - March 2008

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🗓️ 1 March 2008

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Historian and broadcaster Marc Morris on how Edward I made England and Scotland into enemies, Dr Dominic Sandbrook discusses the impact of Enoch Powell's infamous 1968 speech, Professor Liam Kennedy meets the participants of the Easter Rising. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:54.1

and why rabbits and Nazis were mentioned in the same breath by an MP in the House of Parliament

0:58.9

in 1953. Our first big interview this month takes us back to the Middle Ages, though. Mark Morris

1:05.0

has just written his latest book on the subject of King Edward I. He's written a fascinating feature

1:09.8

for us in the magazine about how Edward turned the Scots against the English, so I caught up with him to find out a little more about this cross-border antagonism. You've just written your new book on Edward I first, and you've done a piece for the magazine, and in the magazine you're focusing quite closely on the events of 1290, you're exploring what Edward I first did to make

1:28.7

Scotland an enemy of England. Can you just give us a bit of background? What's going on that?

1:32.5

Well, I chose 1290 for the piece because as far as I'm concerned, it's the pivotal year of

1:38.3

Edward's reign and by extension it's a pivotal year for British history. The background is that Edward I've been outside

1:46.0

of England for the previous three years, 1286 to 1289. He'd been in Gascany, largely to try and

1:53.0

get his cousin, who was the King of Sicily, out of prison. And Edward's big aim from the mid-1280s

2:00.7

onwards was to go on crusade again.

2:01.6

He'd been as a young man before he was king, and he was determined to lead a European-wide crusade.

2:06.6

So as far as he's concerned, the big picture and the big aim is peace in Europe, which means springing his cousin,

2:12.6

and then all the sort of princes of Europe, led by him, are going to go off and reclaim Jerusalem, the Holy City.

2:18.9

But that's his big agenda.

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