Follow The British History Podcast, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/the-british-history-podcast Mon, 05 Jun 2023 12:34:40 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-lslHpngM7vGsqq6eZJzUh9 You may have noticed that Hereward the Wake seems to keep disappearing from the story and then reappearing again. This reflects the actual record, where he pops up only to vanish back into the mist just as quickly. His life appears to have been enigmatic. We only know him by these tidbits. But, even those small moments he appears in the record, he manages to stand out. Hereward was a man on the go.]]> Fri, 26 May 2023 21:31:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-lslHpngM7vGsqq6eZJzUh9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-lOGxFtzm2IhOGrEXdXG_66 When we left off, William (satisfied with the damage he had inflicted upon the people of the North) marched south towards Chester.]]> Fri, 12 May 2023 23:19:29 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-lOGxFtzm2IhOGrEXdXG_66 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-meKwhwrOAnECVCAQLB0bf5 When we ended the last episode. William and his knights had ravaged the North.  He had spared nothing and no one.  Men, women, children, animals, buildings, even the plants.  Everything between York and Durham was annihilated, a stretch of nearly 100 miles.]]> Tue, 02 May 2023 00:59:43 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-meKwhwrOAnECVCAQLB0bf5 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-nTf8lwqtwulAp41t9tiERU Weeks in the rain and cold, marching through mud and picking through forests, had finally - in spite of Northumbria’s best efforts - ended with William reaching his goal. The King arrived in York.]]> Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:58:41 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-nTf8lwqtwulAp41t9tiERU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-n9BjHlbSeind5ZnUTwRGH7 William was charging North. If he was going to hold on to his new kingdom, he had to counter this threat in person.]]> Sat, 25 Mar 2023 01:55:21 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-n9BjHlbSeind5ZnUTwRGH7 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-kUrIAPfXYtHofjc6hd5eWF News of the victory at York spread fast, and people everywhere were finding their courage.]]> Fri, 17 Mar 2023 20:29:02 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-kUrIAPfXYtHofjc6hd5eWF https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-n_AeeXBbbcCO4DA87rvhPr It was Fall of 1069, and the Danes were coming.]]> Sat, 04 Mar 2023 23:45:18 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-n_AeeXBbbcCO4DA87rvhPr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-kJmK7TFuk0C2nhpmeYcemU
Let it go, let it go.
]]> Thu, 23 Feb 2023 22:21:58 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-kJmK7TFuk0C2nhpmeYcemU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-mAORGh9OcewXMq2h3ehXEp The Godwinsons are back in England. Harold’s sons, along with a fleet of 64 Irish ships loaded down with fighters, have just hit the shores.  And it seems like they were students of history, because they were taking up the traditional family business.]]> Sat, 18 Feb 2023 02:32:44 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-mAORGh9OcewXMq2h3ehXEp https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-nttMI9jbvqmSxhxzpi7FpJ Things in the North were dire. This was a problem, because as Orderic tells us, this wasn’t just a minor local revolt.  This was intended to be much bigger.]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2023 00:35:26 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-nttMI9jbvqmSxhxzpi7FpJ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-l8w_R0aa_IV3tuT6pSmY81 ]]> Fri, 03 Feb 2023 22:47:59 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-l8w_R0aa_IV3tuT6pSmY81 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-nljaxcnauoePdczOo_8W9B They appeared as if from nowhere. A great force of men and horses… armed to the teeth… charging towards the city of York.]]> Sat, 28 Jan 2023 00:35:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-nljaxcnauoePdczOo_8W9B https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-mJ-XZt-Jypdc4HQhe4ZUzd Earl Robert lay dead at Durham. Along with 700 of his men. At least. The Chronicle bumps the numbers up a bit, claiming Earl Robert had died 900 of his soldiers at Durham. Either way, that’s a lot of dead Normans.]]> Sat, 21 Jan 2023 00:08:07 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-mJ-XZt-Jypdc4HQhe4ZUzd https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-ns_w--ZMMLLyuZukmJ4mr4 Happy New Year! It was 1069… nice… and as the new year dawned…things in England were getting a bit weird.]]> Sat, 14 Jan 2023 06:08:19 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-ns_w--ZMMLLyuZukmJ4mr4 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-l-ozCgg0Q_5hhSCv31NykC I feel for the English commoners in the late 1060’s. They had nothing to do with the arrival of the Normans… everything they suffered was the result of the actions of the nobles. Exclusively.]]> Sat, 07 Jan 2023 00:51:33 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-l-ozCgg0Q_5hhSCv31NykC https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-m3s3y3qodr3GsGk81fO-bN
Strap yourselves in. It’s finally happening.
]]> Wed, 04 Jan 2023 01:00:55 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-m3s3y3qodr3GsGk81fO-bN https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-mrIGBsNsc4OUTXPGaG87AR ]]> Fri, 09 Dec 2022 19:44:21 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-mrIGBsNsc4OUTXPGaG87AR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-k1YizbUlYJrQVLTsI7B9NX In early 1068… as William was preparing for the tactical Coronation of Matilda… the three sons of Harold Godwinson were in Ireland. They had come to meet with King Diarmad of Dublin and prepare an invasion force to re-take England.]]> Sat, 03 Dec 2022 01:12:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-k1YizbUlYJrQVLTsI7B9NX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-ldyiePyhjNTUZPHFZJLI3I Here is the beginning of Hereward the Wake.

And to tell this story, we have to begin with the legend. Because nothing in this story is straightforward. Probably because at least some of it is true.]]> Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:48:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-ldyiePyhjNTUZPHFZJLI3I https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-kXOsjQqfBYVQX50KYzL9tX Gytha and her supporters had fled into the Severn Estuary, and it was the final nail in the coffin of the Exeter rebellion.]]> Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:36:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/jcA1rSpFa-kXOsjQqfBYVQX50KYzL9tX