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The Witan: England's First Parliament?
Episode 311
Athelstan, grandson of Alfred the Great, was a great king who united what was once a collection of petty Anglo-Saxon kingdoms into one vast English d…
2 years, 5 months ago
Medieval Italy
Episode 310
The huge peninsula of what we today call Italy saw waves of invasions and sweeping changes over the course of the Medieval period, with huge differen…
2 years, 5 months ago
How the Plantagenets Built England
Episode 309
Six Plantagenet kings ruled between 1199 and 1399 - two centuries that witnessed civil war, deposition, the murder of kings and the ruthless executio…
2 years, 6 months ago
Rise of Wessex
Episode 308
In Gone Medieval’s special series exploring some of Anglo-Saxon Britain’s most influential kingdoms, we reach Wessex - the last kingdom left to stand…
2 years, 6 months ago
Rise of Mercia
Episode 307
In Gone Medieval’s special series examining some of Anglo-Saxon Britain’s most significant kingdoms, we arrive at the kingdom of Mercia, which once e…
2 years, 6 months ago
Life on Crusade
Episode 306
Accounts of the Crusades were usually commissioned by wealthy and influential people about themselves, to make their piety and righteousness known to…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Dynasty that Made Medieval France
Episode 305
From Hugh Capet to Eleanor of Aquitaine, the Capetian dynasty considered itself divinely chosen to fulfil a great destiny. From an insecure foothold …
2 years, 6 months ago
Rise of Northumbria
Episode 304
In a time of in-fighting and tribal warfare, what did it take to form the politically dominant, culturally rich and geographically vast kingdoms that…
2 years, 6 months ago
What is a Pilgrimage?
Episode 303
In medieval times, Britain was criss-crossed by pilgrim routes, that took in such world-famous sites as Canterbury and Lindisfarne as well as out-of-…
2 years, 6 months ago
Sex Work in Medieval Times
Episode 302
Prostitutes were everywhere in the streets and neighbourhoods of medieval cities. In one and the same building, there might be a school upstairs, whi…
2 years, 6 months ago