The True History of England with Dan Snow

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Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 21 September 2025

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Dan Snow is a British historian, broadcaster, and author, best known for bringing history to life through documentaries, books, and his popular “History Hit” platform. | We use Ground News to escape the echo chamber and stay fully informed. Go to https://ground.news/triggernometry to save 40% on the Ground News unlimited access Vantage plan. Subscribe to Dan's YouTube channel - @HistoryHit Triggernometry is proudly independent. Thanks to the sponsors below for making that possible: - Protect your wealth with The Pure Gold Company. Get your free investor guide at https://pure-gold.co/trigger - Evening Being by Verso. Get 15% with code TRIGGER at http://evening.ver.so/trigger Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Substack! https://triggernometry.substack.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Shop Merch here - https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: [email protected] Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. 00:00 - Introduction 01:55 - What Is England? 22:09 - The Battle Of Hastings 33:12 - The Rebellions 42:34 - The Medieval Period And The Magna Carta 52:58 - England's Conquests 01:09:48 - The Wars Of The Roses 01:17:36 - The Reformation 01:25:22 - How England Was Briefly A Republic 01:41:09 - The Industrial Revolution And Modern Britain 01:48:46 - What Does It Mean To Be English? 01:55:12 - What's The One Thing We're Not Talking About That We Really Should Be? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let's start at the beginning. What is England?
0:03.4	England emerges in the aftermath of the Roman province of Britannia.
0:09.0	By 9.50, England is recognisable to date.
0:13.1	And that's when we get the greatest hero of English medieval history. It's called William the Marshall.
0:17.4	And then we see the House of Lords and House of Commons developing.
0:20.0	Extraordinary thing about the Plantagenet family.
0:21.6	You get very uneven performance by its kings.
0:23.6	Richard of the Lionheart, John Softsword.
0:26.6	You know, Edward I, Edward I, Edward the second.
0:29.6	Absolute, useless Muppet.
0:31.6	You get Wars of the Roses. You get a civil war in England.
0:34.6	Families, fighting families.
0:36.6	The printing press has been discovered.
0:40.1	The rest of the world has been discovered. From the Tudors onwards, then we're starting to feel this
0:44.3	kind of acceleration in the 17th century. We've got civil war. No one would have said, Brit, that one,
0:49.1	those guys there, they're about to run the world. And then we get the monumental global clashes the 20th century.
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1:17.1	Dan Snow, welcome to Trigonometry. Thanks for having me, guys.
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