The Hundred Years' War
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The Hundred Years' War plunged England, France and their allies into over a century of conflict. This bleak period of history had rebellions, assassinations, open warfare and even the Black Death as the two rival dynasties went head-to-head for the French throne.
Dan is joined by the historian and former Justice of the Supreme Court Lord Jonathan Sumption to help rattle through this 116-year period of bloody history.
Produced by James Hickmann and edited by Dougal Patmore.
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| 0:00.0 | I've already welcomed down to Snow's history yet. |
| 0:03.2 | There are some big things in history that we just need to know about. |
| 0:06.1 | You've got to check them off. |
| 0:07.1 | You've got to do the thing like in the Matrix where you plug it into your brain and then |
| 0:10.6 | you now have to do Kung Fu. |
| 0:12.3 | That's the kind of thing we need for these big events of history. |
| 0:15.6 | In this episode as well, those software updates for your brain. |
| 0:19.6 | This episode is all about the Hundred Years War. |
| 0:21.6 | The Hundred Years War, which was actually arguably several wars and lasted more than a hundred |
| 0:27.1 | years from 1337 to around 1453 was fought between England and France essentially, but lots |
| 0:35.8 | of other people got involved at various times as you will hear. |
| 0:38.9 | This is an explainer episode. |
| 0:40.2 | This is Matt Lewis. |
| 0:41.6 | He's been on this podcast several times. |
| 0:43.4 | He's the host of the History at Gone Medieval Podcast. |
| 0:45.8 | This episode went so bonkers on their feed that I want to share it on this feed. |
| 0:50.4 | He just tells us. |
| 0:51.4 | He just tells us about the Hundred Years War straight up. |
| 0:53.7 | If you didn't know about the Hundred Years War and you wanted to know about it, listen |
| 0:57.2 | to this podcast, then you'll know about it. |
| 0:59.8 | Simple as that. |
| 1:00.8 | There's nothing more I could say. |
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