The Battle of Agincourt looms large in the English historical and cultural imagination, this explainer wades through the mythology to help listeners really understand this infamous battle.įrom almost the moment the battle finished the myth of Agincourt was being spun. If you want to get in touch with the podcast, you can email us at, we'd love to hear from you! You can take part in our listener survey here. Produced by James Hickmann and edited by Dougal Patmore. In this episode, Dan is joined by Jeremy Jennings, author of Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America, to find out more about his little-known travels beyond the United States. But Tocqueville would go on to travel to a myriad of other places by ship and stagecoach, on horseback and on foot across North America, Europe and North Africa. He would eventually publish a remarkable account of life and politics in the United States that became one of the best 19th century accounts of the burgeoning democracy. Travelling in the shadow of the French Revolution, his goal was to learn about the world's largest democracy and work out how France could move forward. In 1831, the French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville left the troubled continent of Europe and set sail for America.
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