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131 The History of Europe Part V
Season 3 Episode 73
Ths episode is the first of 3 to bring us up to date with the history of Europe to the time of Henry IVth. This week it's all about the Economic deve…
11 years, 5 months ago
130 Usurpation
Season 3 Episode 72
In 1399 Bolingbroke and Richard were locked in a struggle - who would rule England and how.
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11 years, 6 months ago
129 Dominion
Season 3 Episode 71
At last in 1397 Richard would have felt that he had put his past humiliation from the Appellants behind him. But he was no happier or secure. He gath…
11 years, 6 months ago
128 The Narcisist
Season 3 Episode 70
In 1397, Richard finally saw the chance to try to get his revenge on the Appellants - Gloucester, Arundel and Warwick. So the parliament of Septembe…
11 years, 6 months ago
127 A Model of Chivalry
Season 3 Episode 69
Henry Bolingbroke, Earl of Derby, son of the most powerful magnate in England, was a golden child blessed with every advantage. While Richard tried t…
11 years, 7 months ago
126 An Uneasy Calm
Season 3 Episode 68
Between the Appellants crisis of 1388 and 1397, Richard ruled with increasingly confidence. He was hardly the most impressive English king but he app…
11 years, 7 months ago
125 Accusatio
Season 3 Episode 67
By 1387, it was becoming clear that the Wonderful Parliament of 1385 had not solved the problem. Pressure had been building, and Gloucester, Warwick …
11 years, 7 months ago
124 The Character of a King
Season 3 Episode 66
From the end of the Peasant's Revolt in 1381, England continues to be managed by the Council, but the young Richard began to have more and more influ…
11 years, 8 months ago
123 Wycliffe and the Lollards
Season 3 Episode 65
Wycliffe's views finally began to attract the enmity of the church; and the crown, in the form of Richard, was no longer prepared to protect him - th…
11 years, 8 months ago
122 Wycliffe and a University Education
Season 3 Episode 64
Wycliffe's writings were to prove controversial and proved an interesting early echo of the Reformation. They heavily influenced the view of Jan Hus …
11 years, 9 months ago