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The Shortest History of England by James Hawes

To say that I loved this book would be the understatement of the year. If you enjoyed Three Acres And A Cow, you should get a copy and read it twice… luckily 2nd hand copies can be found online everywhere for a few quid, so what are you waiting for?

This interview with James is very good – https://www.newstatesman.com/encounter/2020/12/english-believe-their-elites-are-treacherous-class-james-hawes-his-short-history

A few of my favourite bits below…

Popular Protest in Early Modern England (47 mins)

Yale University lecture on Popular Protest by Professor Keith E. Wrightson is taken from his Open Yale online course Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts which has links to all the lectures as videos – the one on Popular Protest can be found as a podcast here or in video form here.

If you read our blogs often, you’ll know that we are massive fans of the podcast in the herd. This one was sent over to us by Peter Bearder who has recently launched an excellent book called Stage Invasion, on the history of spoken word and poetry.