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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Vikings
September is Vikings month on Gone Medieval, as Dr. Cat Jarman presents a mini-series about her favourite, specialist subject. Over her next four epi…
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The Medieval Bishop’s Sex Workers
Outside Medieval London’s city walls, Southwark was a land without rules. It was the place where people went to indulge their love of theatre, watch …
4 years, 1 month ago
Britain After Rome
What really happened in Britain after the fall of Rome? How did people adapt to their new lives? How were new identities formed, and eventually kingd…
4 years, 1 month ago
King Henry V
Few kings have left more of an impression on the English - and then the British - nation as King Henry V, who died on 31 August 1422. The Battle of A…
4 years, 1 month ago
Viking Sex
In this episode of Gone Medieval, presenter Dr. Cat Jarman swaps seats and becomes the guest of Dr. Kate Lister’s brilliant podcast from History Hit,…
4 years, 1 month ago
A Fourteenth Century Thriller: The Lawless Land
England, 1351. In the aftermath of the Pestilence, Gerard Fox - a young knight robbed of his ancestral home, his family name tarnished - sets forth t…
4 years, 2 months ago
Anglo-Saxon Cave Dwellings
The unusual Anchor Church Caves in south Derbyshire were, until quite recently, thought to have been follies cut into the rock in the eighteenth cent…
4 years, 2 months ago
How the English Accent Changed Forever
Between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, a profound transformation took place in the ways that the English language was spoken and words were…
4 years, 2 months ago
What the Romans Did for Us
Early Medieval Britain was more Roman than we think. The Roman Empire left vast infrastructural resources, not least roads, walls and bridges. Why ha…
4 years, 2 months ago
A History of Britain in 50 Documents
How do you go about finding your way around the history of a nation and a national identity? For the barrister and author Dominic Selwood, documents …
4 years, 2 months ago