RHIC: Henry VIII, Thatcherism and Roman Counterfactuals

Who is England's most important monarch, William the Conquerer or Henry VIII? How would England have turned out without the Norman Conquest? Were Sodom and Gomorrah caused by real natural disasters? Does 2022 rival 1974 for a crisis year in British politics? Was Thatcherism inevitable? Which revolts in history have genuinely been lead by peasants? Would a Carthaginian empire have risen in place of the Roman Empire had they won the First or Second Punic Wars? And, how would Dominic structure a new historical book series about the years between Tony Blair getting elected in 1997, and the next UK election?

Join Tom and Dominic for this week's bonus episode, as they answer some fascinating historical questions.

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