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46 Richard and the Road to Outremer
Season 2 Episode 24
Richard set off from Sicily probably intending to go straight to the Holy Land. But a chance storm enforced a landing at Cyprus, where the locals wer…
14 years, 5 months ago
45 Packing the Bags
Season 2 Episode 23
Richard came into the lands of his father and was crowned at Westminster in 1189. For the next 6 months he was packing his bags, cleaning the fridg…
14 years, 6 months ago
44 The Lionheart
Season 2 Episode 22
To most contemporaries, Richard I was a hero. Since then his reputation has suffered badly, until even Winston Churchill describes him as the worst o…
14 years, 6 months ago
43 The Greatest of all Monarchs
Season 2 Episode 21
In 1173-4 Henry was faced by a revolt by his wife, children and many of his leading barons. 1183 to his death in 1189 were years where Henry was incr…
14 years, 6 months ago
42 English Justice and the Invasion of Ireland
Season 2 Episode 20
So here are two completely unconnected subjects then! Henry is responsible for reforms to the process of English justice that had a long lasting impa…
14 years, 7 months ago
41 Murder in the Cathedral
Season 2 Episode 19
After Thomas recanted from his signature of the Constitutions of Clarendon, things got really nasty. Before long, Thomas was in exile, and Henry coul…
14 years, 7 months ago
40 Bishop Trouble
Season 2 Episode 18
The 1160's. A time of consolidation of the Angevin Empire, still ruled by a dynamic, young and aggressive Henry. But mainly remembered for the start …
14 years, 7 months ago
39 Ruling the Angevin Empire
Season 2 Episode 17
Bear in mind at all times that Henry, while being a Good King, was a tyrant. Still, he was a tyrant who ran a mean administrative system for the time…
14 years, 7 months ago
38 Born of the Devil - the Angevins
Season 2 Episode 16
Geniuses, devils, spoilt brats, villains, heroes; war, sex, violence, bravery, treachery, peace, reform... the Angevins that founded the Plantagenet …
14 years, 8 months ago
37 12th Century Life - Village, Town and Trade
Season 2 Episode 15
12th Century England was envied for it's fertility and yes it's climate. Any during the 12th century, the population of England and its towns and vil…
14 years, 8 months ago