The British History Podcast

493 – The Price of Peace

The Treaty penned at Alton had avoided outright war, but it wasn’t truly official. It needed to be finalized at Winchester.

In 1668, John Dryden became England’s very first Poet Laureate. But he had a rival. No, not just a rival. A nemesis.

This man’s name was Thomas Shadwell, and I can’t overstate how much Dryden hated him.

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