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This episode of ReadingforWisdom features some key publications by English historian Robert Lacey. The video briefly reviews Lacey’s The Kingdom: Arabia and the House of Saud (1981) and (written with Danny Danziger) The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium (1999), before focusing on Lacey’s Great Tales from English History trilogy (2003-2006). Ok, I do talk about the trilogy in the video as if they are recent publications but, hey!, great reading regardless!

Read some thoughts on Lacey's The Kingdom at my website https://readingforwisdom.com/2018/12/...

A thought provoking Big Think interview with Lacey on ‘the Kingdom’ can be found at    • Big Think Interview with Robert Lacey...  

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