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The first love song in English! Beautifully performed by the incomparable Muco. Many more such medieval bangers here: therestishistory.com

📣NEW EPISODE 🪓THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE Blood is flowing once again on the streets of Paris in the THRILLING CLIMAX to our multi-year history of the French Revolution... 🔫 Could Robespierre have really established his Republic of Virtue? 🎭 Why was everyone in the Convention a failed actor? 🎤 And why you should NEVER give Robespierre the floor, unless you want to live to regret it. 🎙️: linktr.ee/restishistory 📺: piped.video/bh1fCuvlUmY

📣NEW BONUS EPISODE Did the Illuminati Secretly Control the French Revolution? On today's bonus episode: ⚡️ One man is struck by lightning. 📚 A Bavarian professor tries to take over the world. 🦎 And Tom asks whether the Royal Family are secretly lizards. Want to listen or watch now? Join today at therestishistory.com/club

🩸NEW EPISODE🩸 🪓THE TERROR: KILLING GOD🪓 Today on The Rest Is History: 🔥Robespierre literally sets fire to atheism 🤔The French Revolution abolishes Sunday 😱And a former physics teacher discovers that the guillotine simply isn’t efficient enough 🎙️: linktr.ee/restishistory 📺: piped.video/iri_akaOLSs

📣NEW EPISODE📣 🩸THE TERROR: DEATH AT THE GUILLOTINE🩸 Today on The Rest Is History: 💀 Danton decides the Terror has gone a bit too far 🇬🇧 Robespierre discovers that Britain is apparently behind absolutely everything 🪓 Hébert learns that calling for everyone else to be guillotined has certain drawbacks ⚔️ And two old friends prepare for the ultimate showdown: Danton vs Robespierre The French Revolution continues, inching closer to its bloody climax at (where else?) the guillotine... 📺: piped.video/vI8Yj1atvng 🎙️: linktr.ee/restishistory

🎙️NEW BONUS EPISODE🎙️ Why Did the French Revolution Turn Violent? With @simon_schama Author of Citizens, maybe the best history of the Revolution in English, Simon Schama joins @dcsandbrook to discuss: 💀Why revolutionaries always feared it spinning out of control, even as they contributed to it doing so 🔫Why the Revolution revelled in violence from the very start ⏰The moment it probably became irrecoverable, and it's not one of the dates usually discussed Available on YouTube here: piped.video/KDxnZYBDldk And available to all club members IN FULL here: therestishistory.com/club

📣NEW EPISODE📣 ☠️THE REIGN OF ROBESPIERRE☠️ Tom and Dominic discuss the rise to power of Maximilien Robespierre: 😇How can high ideals lead you to believing only TERROR can save France? 🪓How did he go from opposing the death penalty to, well, you know... 💀And Madame Guillotine begins to really crank up in her deadly work 🎙️: linktr.ee/restishistory 📺: piped.video/5u2SLaHzwZA

You live in France in early 1793. Whose side are you on?

📣NEW SERIES📣 ☠️THE TERROR☠️ The French Revolution's lofty ideals collapse into an orgy of death! Tom and Dominic discuss: 🤔What went wrong? 🎨Why Montmartre should really still be named after Marat 🇫🇷Meanwhile, out there, in the darkness, the forces of counter-revolution swirl... 🎙️: linktr.ee/restishistory 📺: piped.video/N3yVc7CDWYE

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 🇬🇧Queen Victoria's Revenge: The Mad Emperor of Abyssinia🇬🇧 Tom and Dominic discuss: 👑Queen Victoria forgets to answer a letter ⛓️An Ethiopian emperor responds by taking a collection of British diplomats and missionaries hostage 🇬🇧And Britain decides the only sensible solution is to send an army halfway across the world 🎙️: linktr.ee/restishistory 📺: piped.video/oaqf89-7tkU

What happened to the men who fell into enemy hands on D-Day? Tom and James look at Ancestry's World War II Liberated Prisoner of War Questionnaires that reveal remarkable stories of survival, resistance and escape.

THANK YOU to everybody who came to our @TheRestHistory shows in London this weekend. And thank you to our truly brilliant @GoalhangerHQ team, led magnificently by Callum Hill, Aaliyah Akude and their colleagues. It's a joy to work with you.

Thank you to everyone who made last night at Royal Festival Hall such a brilliant show. Say hello in the replies if you came long, or if you're coming today!