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“Hillary Mantell's amazing Wolf Hall books that changed the Cromwell landscape for all of us”

“We we're not sure he read anything other than the Bible and Walter Raleigh's history”

“We we're not sure he read anything other than the Bible and Walter Raleigh's history”

“The House of Cromwell. Power, Family and the Making of Modern Britain”

“In fact, I did read one book by an American, modern book by an American, who suggested that the British had what he called the cult of toast”

“It's none other than Amy Jeffs, who has written Arthur A New Life”

“the biggest most impactful source on that front is Thomas Mallory's Mort d'Arture, fifteen century”

“Geoffrey of Monmouth finishes his history of the Kings of Britain around eleven thirty six”

“Gerald of Wales. who's writing a couple of decades, a few decades after Geoffrey of Monmouth, he did Antipography of Ireland, Journey Through Wales”

“he did Antipography of Ireland, Journey Through Wales”

“if he saw a copy of the Bible, there would be absolutely no demons on it”

“earlier British historians like Gildas and the Spurious Ninnius, the ninth century author of The History of the Britons”

“The Life of Gilders by Carada Hochlanka”

“In Robert de Baron, which is his l history of Merle and Estar de Merlin, which is written in the early thirteenth century”

“When I was researching Storyland, I found a brand of wood burning stove called Watergun on the internet”

“Lachamon's Middle English brute. translation that's about the eleven eighties”

“In the Cambridge Companion to Authorian Literature. In the introduction written by Ronald Hutton”

“You've got a new book, I it's called Bardzo. The moments that transformed warfare from ancient Greece to Ukraine”

“the author of several prize-winning books, including Reformation, Europe's House Divided, and A History of Christianity, The First Years”

“the author of several prize-winning books, including Reformation, Europe's House Divided, and A History of Christianity, The First Years”

“he got his best theologians in the country in other words, Oxford and Cambridge Dons, to help him write A book against Luther. And he called it the assertion of the seven sacraments”

“One bit of which says you must not marry your deceased brother's wife, which was exactly what would have to happen”

“And yet if you th thrut through the Bible a bit more, you find another book of the Bible, book of Do tronomy. Says, You got to marry a deceased brother's wife”

“One of the things which Wycliffe had encouraged to happen was the creation in the fourteenth century of a Bible through the Lollard movement ... It is in Middle English. And it's the first time that the whole of the Bible had been translated into English”

“he he'd read his Luther. U and was impressed by the fact that things needed to change in the church. So from the early fifteen twenties he was creating A Bible”

“the mark of that is that about eighty percent of the great King James Bible of sixteen eleven is actually William Tyndall”

“Your new book, The Flight Nurses Ward, sheds light on the extraordinary work done by flight nurses”

“what I discovered when I wrote the book, which was unlike X Troop, which was my last book about these Jewish commandos in the UK who fought against the Nazis”

“Dante's Inferno is used a lot to describe Iojima by the men and by the women, that they were sort of like in Dante's Inferno”

“So I wanted to find out a bit more about Harold from Tom Lysens, who has just written Harold's biography in the Yale Monarch series. So a great expert to have on the podcast. to hear about Harold. Now the book is titled Harold Warrior King”

“I found first as a child in Virgil's poem The Aeneid”

“His latest book, Goddesses a history of love and war. Is out now”

“I'm Incredibly. Excited to be with you today to talk about your latest book. The sea king and the sorceress, life and death”

“So I'm about to read from the Jackson Crawford translation of Fall spa”

“And the first one of them is the saga the Inglings, which is the dynasty that ruled central Sweden in in the early Viking Age and centuries prior to that”

“Historian Malcolm Gaskell joins Eleanor Evans in this episode of the History Extra podcast to discuss his new book. Worlds of fear and wonder”

“My book castles, I I go all the way back to the sort of origins of fortification”

“Book of the City Ladies. Uses the idea of a castle. As an analogy for her assembling Great female historical figures from across the ages”

“if if we go back to the sort of classic texts of the late medieval English corpus, um Sir Garwain and the Green Knight”

“he's written a number of books on Richard II, including the forthcoming The Innocence in the Tower. An anatomy of a mystery”

“if you look at the Great Fire of London from Peeps diary, that p in some ways that that's a definitive version of that”

“Historian Beth Lou Williams has spent countless hours in the archives uncovering this wide ranging set of laws for her book John Doe Chinaman”

“In this episode of the History Extra podcast, Andrew Kenric, author of Rex Juba Fifteen Glimpses of an African King, unravels his amazing life in conversation with David Musgrove”

“of course those listeners familiar with Shakespeare's Manson and Cleopatra will know this story well”

“The records of her case provide a remarkable window into everyday life in 17th century West Africa and form the basis of Toby Green's latest book, The Heretic of Kashu”

“Erin McGlock about her new book, Presence, which explores the history of the female body and the longstanding beliefs that society has held about it”

“the upcoming home release of Pressure, the gripping untold story of the efforts to chart the weather on D Day. We've teamed up with Studio Canal for a special event at the Royal Society of Arts in London, featuring David Haig, the writer of Pressure”

“And say like in Jane Sharp's midwifery manual, which is a seventeenth century English one”

“Your book, The Country House at War, a story of loss, reinvention, and the birth of new Britain, explores how country houses in Britain were repurposed during the Second World War”

“That's the question that acclaimed biographer Miranda Seymour takes on in her latest book, I Vera, an account of the astonishing life of the world's first female professor of surgery”

“Luckily, firstly, there had been a very good biography w written in Russian, which has never been translated. by Vladimir Hoklov, called The Colour is White, rather unmemorably”

“Bulgarkov was giving his patients Camphor before he wrote The Master and Margaret and became a writer”

“she wrote a magnificent series of of poems called The Factory Poems about her experiences as a factory doctor”