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Matthew Paris, monk and chronicler, wrote the following about the death of King John; "Foul as it is, Hell itself is fouler for the presence of John".  For a man who engendered feelings of hatred and disgust in his own lifetime and ever since, was his end fitting?

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Gareth Russell, award-winning author and historian, talks to me about the aftermath of the Titanic sinking.

Even in just this 4 minute snippet of the 1-hour interview, you will hear some myths busted and just what a harrowing experience it was to be a survivor and also about the press intrusion which happened immediately!

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🗓 Next month we have another fabulous historian joining us, Lesley Smith who will be telling us all about Mary, Queen of Scots and her incarceration at Tutbury Castle.

This Week in British History is:  ⛲️ 500 years since the Field of Cloth of Gold summit opens, 👑 Coronation of Anne Boleyn,  👑 Coronation of Elizabeth II,  🎩 Duke of Windsor marries Wallace Simpson, for whom he had abdicated the throne, 🗺 The D-Day landings mark the first day of Operation Overlord in World War II, 🚗 The Driving Test is introduced in the UK, 32 years after licensing and 🥃 the first written record of 'Scotch' Whiskey

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This Week in British History - Presented by Philippa Lacey Brewell

6th - 12th April  

🤴Richard I (Richard the Lionheart) dies,  

⚓️RMS Titanic Sets Sail,  

🎶The Beatles split,  

🇬🇧First Union Jack is created in 1606  

📜William Wordsworth is born and is created Poet Laureate (not in the same year 😂)

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Richard Lionheart 

(and all English monarchs from Boudicea to Elizabeth I) A History of the English Monarchy by Gareth Russell. Published by Made Global. https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Richard-Lionheart/  Titanic The Darksome Bounds of a Failing World: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era by Gareth Russell. Published by Harper Collins and also available on Audible.  

Wordsworth 

http://www.baymoon.com/~ariadne/poets/poets.laureate.britain.htm#WilliamWordsworth https://poetrysociety.org.uk/education/poet-laureate-faqs/  

Union Jack 

Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1986) [1904]. The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopædia of Armory. London: Bloomsbury Books. p. 399. ISBN 0-906223-34-2. https://www.oxfordinternationalenglish.com/why-is-the-united-kingdom-flag-called-the-union-jack/