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King Eadred

Season 8 Episode 302

Ok, where were we? With all this focus on culture, it’s been a little bit since we last talked about the political situation in Britain.  So lets rem…

7 years, 1 month ago

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Chapter 8 - Twilight of the Anglo Saxons

Season 8 Episode 301

This isn’t going to end well.  

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7 years, 2 months ago

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Common Folk

Season 7 Episode 301

Today, we’re going to wrap up this cultural series with a focus on my favorite group of people.  The people who rarely, if ever, get talked about. Th…

7 years, 2 months ago

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Noble Lives

Season 7 Episode 300

When we left off, we were talking about Thegns. Specifically, we were talking about King’s Thegns and how they could wield degrees of power that coul…

7 years, 2 months ago

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The Shape of Power

Season 7 Episode 299

Ealdormen… Thegns… Ceorls. These were the  important cogs in the machine of government. They had powerful roles, and held powerful spaces within angl…

7 years, 3 months ago

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The Achavanich Beaker Burial Project: Ancient DNA with Maya Hoole

Season 7

Links to material referenced in the show. The Achavanich Beaker Burial ‘Ava’: a Beaker-associated woman from a cist at Achavanich, Highland, and the …

7 years, 3 months ago

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Uptown Ceorl

Season 7 Episode 298

Long ago there was a settlement that had been occupied and farmed by the British and the Anglo Saxons for centuries. In fact, by the time that the Sc…

7 years, 4 months ago

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The Hundreds and the Wapentakes

Season 7 Episode 297

We have spoken a lot about the life of a handful of individuals – namely the rulers that have descended from the line of Alfred. There are a couple o…

7 years, 4 months ago

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The Halloween Special

Season 7

I love Halloween. I think it might be my favorite holiday, and it’s not really because I like spooky things. I actually kind of hate horror movies. T…

7 years, 4 months ago

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Darkening Skies

Season 7 Episode 296

It begins in France. The struggle for power between King Louis IV and Hugh the Great had been raging for quite some time… When we last visited the co…

7 years, 4 months ago

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