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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.

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7 years, 6 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, 7 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, 7 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, 10 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, 10 months ago

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Darkening Skies
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

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The Return of England
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…

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It All Comes Crashing Down
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

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The Beacons are Lit
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

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King in the North
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

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