Medieval towns: everything you wanted to know

History Extra podcast

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🗓️ 5 January 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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What was it like to live in a British town or city in the Middle Ages? Were they filthy hotbeds of crime and violence? How often did fires break out? And where could you get a good slap-up meal if you were hungry? In this 'everything you wanted to know' episode, historian Professor Carole Rawcliffe speaks to David Musgrove to answer listener questions about medieval urban life – from filth and fire, to fast food, foreigners and fighting on the streets. Professor Carole Rawcliffe explores the keep-fit trends of the Middle Ages: https://link.chtbl.com/vIShX27F. The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:57.5	Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History Magazine.
1:03.5	What was it like to live in a British town or city in the Middle Ages?
1:12.7	Were they really filthy hotbeds of crime and violence? And where could you get a slap-up meal if you were hungry? In today's Everything You Wanted to Know episode, Professor Carol Rawcliffe answers listener questions about
1:18.4	medieval urban life. Filth and fire, fast food, foreigners and fighting in the streets,
1:24.6	they're all covered in this conversation with David Musgrove.
1:28.7	Can we kick off with a sort of a very quick summary of how urban spaces changed during the
1:34.4	course of the Middle Ages? I mean, what I'd like to start out by saying is how different urbanisation
1:39.7	is in medieval Great Britain from the way it is now, which not all listeners may quite realize,
1:45.1	because far fewer people actually lived in towns than is the case now. I think Britain's
1:50.7	very heavily urbanised today, but if you take England and Wales, a peak of urban life,
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