Welcome to the British History Podcast. My name is Jamie and this is episode 447.

The End of the Conquest

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If the last few episodes have seemed a little confusing,

then you're hearing them right.

Europe at the end of the 11th century was a rapidly changing world, and it is all going to have a profound

impact on the history of Britain.

I want you to have a really good understanding of what's going on here and to do that

I've been forced to go back and forth between simultaneous storylines. The idea is to keep you rooted in what is happening right here and now.

Watching events unfold the way the people living through them would have.

But I'm also mindful that this is hard to follow sometimes, which is why I try and give you

refreshers on who the hell I'm talking about every once in a while. But that being said, sometimes I just drop a thread because I really want to finish a story and I can't just confuse you with all these endless side plots.

And this episode is beginning with one of those dropped threads.

So with all the craziness of 1085,

which included Scandinavian invasion fleets,

Norman nobles being assassinated by children,

and a failed proposal from Robert Kurt hose

to a woman who may have killed her previous husband.

Well, amidst all of that, who may have killed her previous husband.

Well, amidst all of that,

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