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Unforgettable as it was, the public response to the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022 was not without precedent. When her great-grandfather King Edward VII - glamorous, cosmopolitan and extraordinarily popular - died in May 1910, the political, social and cultural anxieties of a nation in turmoil were temporarily set aside during a summer of intense and ritualised mourning. In The King Is Dead, Long Live the King! Martin Williams charts a period of tension and transition as one era slipped away and another took shape.

Today it's easy to feel unmotivated to do, to feel and to fight for the causes that you believe in. We look at activists today – people throwing soup at Van Gogh and glueing themselves to a million-year-old dinosaur bones – and see no talent or bravery. But humans have been fighting for their freedom for many centuries. That fight had its ups and downs, for sure. But it's important to remember the "ups," so that "downs" wouldn't be so painful. That's what this podcast is about.