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Ah, Warwick the Kingmaker, how I have (not) missed thee

what I did not expect to acquire from this book was a burning desire to write an Owen Glendower novel

There really is nothing like reading a little political history to drive home the Hollowness of Worldly Ambition.

WHO DO WE STAN?
GOOD QUEEN ANNE

(someone hire me as england’s poet laureate, stat)

bRO this is why the right to a trial by jury matters. The judge had to go through three juries (and threaten the last set with death if they didn’t decide exactly as he wanted them to decide) to get a guilty verdict so he could legally hang the villeins.

as an American kid you learn a lot more about England’s history than, like, any other country’s…but still so many gaps? i had never heard of the Peasant’s Revolt of 1381 before this book. !!