Hi everyone, I'm sure your 2024 feels as empty as Richard the Lionheart's War Chest or King John's Christmas

card list without a new season of This Is History on your podcast feed, but I'm here to tell you that it's well on the way.

Expect to see it in late February.

In the meantime, there's oodles of brilliant content over on This is History Plus, where I've been dropping weekly interviews

with brilliant historians and authors, like Philip Gregory and Eleanor Parker.

And to give you a taste of what's there, I'm releasing last week's episode here.

It's a chat with the brilliant Danielle Sibulski, where I find out how to live like a medieval

monk in the spirit of improving myself for the new year.

I'll be back at the end.

Enjoy. First of all we can all learn from the Middle Ages but you seem to like going

one further and taking self-help from the Middle Ages.

You've written a book about how to survive the zombie apocalypse medieval style.

Before we get into our New Year's resolutions, how well would a medieval peasant do against zombies?

Would King John have lasted very long? I think King John

would have lasted pretty long yeah because he's used to hiding behind walls. He's always

trying to get away from people who are trying to get him so I think he's had a

lot of practice at that.

Okay, well, hopefully that the zombie apocalypse is not a tribulation

2024 has in store for us.

So let's talk about your latest book,

how to live like a Medieval Monk.

We come across Monks a lot in the sources for the Plantagenet period, which we've been talking

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