Podcast Episodes

Team Edward

Season 8 Episode 311

King Edgar the Peaceable was buried at Glastonbury in 975. But weirdly that isn’t the end of his story. William of Malmesbury tells us that nearly a …

7 years, 3 months ago

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Political Theater

Season 8 Episode 310

Human beings can’t really be summed up in a nickname. Usually we are more complicated than a word or two. And sometimes, the nickname just doesn’t re…

7 years, 3 months ago

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Size Doesn't Matter (until it does)

Season 8 Episode 309

You would think that someone named Edgar the Peaceable enjoyed a good reputation. But the closer you look, the more things start to look…off. And if …

7 years, 3 months ago

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A Thirst for Reform

Season 8 Episode 308

Across the North Sea, in Scandinavia, a man named Harald Greycloak was struggling for dominance in the region.  He wasn’t just any man, he was a son …

7 years, 3 months ago

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Cleaning House

Season 8 Episode 307

The King is dead.  Long live the King. Eadwig, the 18 year old King known for his beauty, had died.  Somehow.

The post 307 – Cleaning House first app…

7 years, 4 months ago

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A Very Special BHP Valentine's Day Episode

Season 8 Episode 305

History is known as a field for being a bit of a slog. Tracing events, and people, and social movements through decades and centuries is a huge task …

7 years, 4 months ago

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Eric Bloodaxe

Season 8 Episode 303

We can probably assume that Harald Fairhair, the King of Norway, had fantastic hair. It was either big, or really long, or super glossy, and it was a…

7 years, 5 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, 7 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, 8 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, 8 months ago

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