Introduction

This episode is sponsored now and for ever by simon hall at hall's hammered coins, the on line british coin specialist. Now you'll find out why it's sponsoed by him in a moment. L hello ever one, and welcome to the history of england, episode 300, forty seven, the english revolution. And would like to salute a frenchman, one francois guisot, who actually coined the title english revolution. So maybe we'd better give him the first quote of what will be many quotes. He wrote a history of european civilization, nothing major then, and described the struggle to establish constitutional rights thusly: The first clash took