A Mediaeval Titanic

Sep 2021
The White Ship - Charles Spencer – William Collins, 2020
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If, like me, your historical education followed the Sellar and Yeatman curriculum, then you will probably vaguely remember the post-Norman invasion politicking covered by this book and may even recall the importance of the White Ship. I must confess that I didn't, which made this an entertaining fleshing out of the dry-as-dust lessons I had at age eleven (which consisted of our teacher basically writing out a history text book on a blackboard with squeaky chalk). Spencer uses this mediaeval Titanic as the central event in a more general history of the reign of Henry the First.
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