You may also like: Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

You may also like: Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

Hey Dan here. Here’s a podcast from none other than TIH alumna, producer Georgia Mills! If you can’t get enough of historical failure after History’s Greatest Fails, give Cautionary Tales a listen. My royal favourites get one month free of a free subscription — look out for the gift link on our Patreon Court Gossip thread. In the meantime, here’s a sample episode. It’s the tale of a poet who thought his poem about the Battle of Crecy was going to rival Shakespeare… evidently, it did not. William McGonagall's poems are something else. The jarring meter, the banal imagery, the awkward rhymes: they made him a laughing stock in 19th Century Scotland and are still derided to this day. How does someone get that bad at poetry? Or have we been misunderstanding McGonagall all along? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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S10 E5 | King Henry’s Second Coming

S10 E5 | King Henry’s Second Coming

It’s time for a restoration, or rather, re-adeption.  In 1470, Warwick the Kingmaker seizes his moment and slings Henry VI back onto the English throne.  It’s fair to say the Lancastrian king doesn’...

23 Kesä 31min

S10 E4 | The Kingmaker Strikes Back

S10 E4 | The Kingmaker Strikes Back

It’s a gorgeous, calculated provocation.  In the summer of 1469, in Calais, the Earl of Warwick, marries his daughter Isabel to George, Duke of Clarence, brother and heir to King Edward IV.  It’s an...

16 Kesä 30min

S10 E3 | LOVEBOMBING

S10 E3 | LOVEBOMBING

Richard Neville, the Earl of Warwick, knows there’s no such thing as a free lunch. And the best way to keep the people on your side is through their stomachs.  It’s a lesson King Edward IV has yet to...

9 Kesä 29min

S10 E2 | Rise of the Woodvilles

S10 E2 | Rise of the Woodvilles

Edward IV marries in secret, then springs the news like a trap.  England’s new Queen, Elizabeth Woodville, arrives with two sons, a Lancastrian past, and a family ready to take their chance. When the...

2 Kesä 32min

S10 E1 | A New Hope

S10 E1 | A New Hope

A 13-year-old girl labours in a sealed chamber at Pembroke Castle as the plague circles them. Miraculously, Margaret Beaufort survives. Her son does, too. His name is Henry Tudor. This birth doesn...

26 Touko 36min

You may also like: Hidden History with Dr Harini Bhat

You may also like: Hidden History with Dr Harini Bhat

Hello from Dan! Don’t fret. There’s nothing happening to This Is History! I thought I’d give you a little treat ahead of Season 11 of A Dynasty to Die For. The excellent Dr Harini Bhat has kindly give...

21 Touko 8min

Introducing… Season Ten of a Dynasty to Die For

Introducing… Season Ten of a Dynasty to Die For

Three brothers. One crown. And no ounce of loyalty between them. In the final Plantagenet season of A Dynasty to Die For, Dan Jones traces the spectacular implosion of a dynasty that defined medie...

19 Touko 2min

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