Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCleaning 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, 6 months ago
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, 7 months ago
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, 7 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
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
The Beacons are Lit
Season 7 Episode 293
When we left off, AEthelstan had recently died, Olaf had returned from Dublin and been crowned King of Jorvik (which meant that the Kingdom of Jorvik…
8 years ago
King in the North
Season 7 Episode 292
How we understand any event comes down to what angle we are able to view it from. And the story of AEthelstan is no exception. On the one hand, it is…
8 years ago