🎧 The White Ship
🎧 Dan Snow's History Hit
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27m
Charles Spencer joined me on the pod to discuss the sinking of the White Ship on the 25th November 1120. It is one of the greatest disasters that England has ever suffered. Its repercussions changed English and European history for ever.
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