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7 years, 8 months ago
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, 9 months ago
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, 9 months ago
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, 9 months ago
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, 10 months ago
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, 10 months ago
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, 11 months ago
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, 11 months ago
The Return of England
Season 7 Episode 295
You know the pieces on a chessboard? There’s the knight, and the queen, and the castle….and then there’s the bishop. There’s a reason why a game that…
7 years, 11 months ago
It All Comes Crashing Down
Season 7 Episode 294
The story of the last few episodes is a story about a lesson that humanity has had to re-learn again and again throughout history. When your society …
7 years, 11 months ago