# Episode 135: A House of Cards

An episode of [The History of English Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/538608536), 24 Mar 2020, 1 h 17 min.

Audio: https://media.blubrry.com/historyofenglish/content.blubrry.com/historyofenglish/Ep135-House-of-Cards3.mp3

In the early 1400s, playing cards made their first appearance in England. Those cards provide evidence of an early form of printing, but it would take another generation for Johannes Gutenberg to invent the printing press. In this episode we explore the history of playing cards and the printing press, and we also look at the end of the Hundred Years’ War. We also examine how these events contributed to the history of English and the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern era. TRANSCRIPT: EPISODE 135

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