Welcome to the British History Podcast. My name is Jamie and this is episode 448.

The Death of William the Conqueror.

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The story of William and the Conquest has been a long road.

And I've heard from some of you that this... has been

challenging to listen to,

and I get it.

no matter how awful William is,

he never seems to face any real consequences. And sometimes history

just has these kinds of figures and they feel more like a force of nature than a

human being. And William specifically feels like he wasn't ruled by people type of laws, but instead physical laws, specifically Newton's first law of motion. An object in motion stays in motion.

Talking about William, it feels like there's no power strong enough to stop the inertia of this too powerful man.

But that's not true.

Even a force of nature can be stopped, and it's often stopped by another force of nature.

At the end of the day, and I mean the very last day,

we're all equals, and no one can bully the reaper.

So chin up, it's nearly over.

And man, it really needed to be over.

Because here's what the chronicle says.

Quote, it was a very severe year and a very laborious and sorrowful year in England.

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