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#94 'Political gangsterdom' - Ep 4 What Wars? What Roses?

#94 'Political gangsterdom' - Ep 4 What Wars? What Roses?

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 By the time Henry VI finally lost the last bit of England's French Empire in 1453 he could no longer go to war in France to occupy and enrich his nobility. This small, interrelated and bickering group, cooped up in England with an agricultural depression settling in, now resorted to what the historian Michael Postan long ago (in 1939) famously called ‘political gangsterdom.’ (R)

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