Podcasts History The History of England 72 The Empire Strikes Back

72 The Empire Strikes Back

Published: Sept. 22, 2012, 4:14 p.m.

Things looked pretty good for the reformers in 1259; but at the heart of the reform movement were faultlines that weakened them, and made them vulnerable. The differing aims of the magnates; the avarice of de Montfort; and the fact that would pague the civil war 400 years later - how ever many times they defeated the king, he would still be the king. And in 1261, the royal fight back began.

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