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This podcast is a linear telling of English History through the lives of each of their Monarchs. For lovers of historical fiction, it will fill in the gaps left by authors as well as explore the historical accuracy of those novels.
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Time for William 4 to shine and demonstrate the admiral qualities of a king. Or not.
George 4 (May he live forever) is sick again but this time it may be real. He’s on the booze, the drugs and lots of tucker so is doing himself no favours. And his pet giraffe will die. Sad.
1Caroline has come back to England to be the darling of the people. For a bit.
How on earth have we become a mighty empire? Plus George will get his very own silly hat but will Caroline spoil the fun.
Well the whole family looks pretty dysfunctional so it is hardly surprising that we have unhappy children. Princess Charlotte just wants to have fun but Prinny is not about to let that happen. She is to obey him.
Team Wellesley will finish the job and India will become part of the British empire.
It will be Richard and Arthur working in India. All they want is everything, thanks.
George has a new name for his closest friends to use. Meanwhile, Napoleon has got himself into all sorts of bother by going into Russia. Lots of his brave boys will not be going home again.
Prince George is desperate to take over from his mad dad, but plenty of people would rather he didn’t. On and on it goes. Historical fiction this week will feature a cross dressing lesbian at the court of Ted 2 and that means some Piers Gaveston action.
George is getting there but he will have to be patient and so will we.
It is a long time coming but we are on the way.
Yes it is all still about George. Except the bit about Duke of York Fred’s missus Freddie and her shoes.
I think we have already worked out that this guy is a bit of a dick. Well it is, as usual worse so let us meet him properly. Here he is marrying Mrs Maria Fitherbert without permission.
Yes, the old boy is back on his medications or something or other. He is off with the fairies and oh dear, however will we cope.
Superstar Nelson will knock out the Frenchie navy and that will hurt Napoleon. He will though belt up the Russians and Germans at Austerlitz giving Ridley Scott happy visions of putting that in a movie.
Shall we kick off the new century with war? Why not.
You can alway rely on Bristol for a riot every few years.
In which the Indians lose India. But the British Government can see that the company has gone way too far and so will impeach Warren Hastings. Yes the only decent English guy to run the company is the one to cop it.
It’s not so much as Britain winning an empire as India losing one.
War can mess up all sorts of things including a vote for a new pope.
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The Wonder is being released on Netflix next week preview looked OK.
Dick's, Jekyll and Hyde episode.
Bahahaha, great episode.
This was the second episode old mate talks about the armour as if it's plate, when that doesn't exist yet. They worn chain mail in 1st crusade, this only protects against slashing attacks and an goes straight through it. i also imagine it's just fine to shit yourself as it's shaped like a dress, one would not need to drill a hole in the arse as suggested in earlier episode.
in the book "The Immortality Key" there was a fair bit of talk about drinking one's self to death, seemed to happen a fair bit in the ancient world although didn't talk about medieval. People died from the fun addatives they seemingly deliberately put in (like ergot which is a poisonous fungus with LSD in it), not the alcohol content. Dosage was difficult, they had to make the beer from a mix of infected and not infected grain.
This guy is like the anti Jordan Peterson haha. The seems to think fiction has no value because it isn't real, but doesn't mind a spontaneous keynesian rant.
Funny, interesting and enjoyable to learn.
genius
great episode!
I am on the Board of a local community theater in Washington State, US. I'm playing King Henry II in an upcoming play, The Lion in Winter. Would you be interested in being interviewed via video chat about Hank and Family?
fun look at history