Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWelshCast Part Two: All The Comforts of Rome (well... some of them)
Season 2 Episode 89
We’re now at the point where Rome has withdrawn from Britannia (and more important to our story, from Wales), and today we’re going to talk about the…
13 years ago
Concubinage and Apartheid in Anglo Saxon England
Season 2 Episode 87
Ok, so last episode we ended at 597. For those of you who are really into Anglo Saxon history, you might recognize that date as the date that Christi…
13 years, 1 month ago
The Fall of Ceawlin... and others
Season 2 Episode 86
Ok, from the title you might have gathered that we’re going to be talking about Ceawlin today. Now from all this discussion of various anglo saxon le…
13 years, 1 month ago
Ceawlin and the Sons of Ida
Season 2 Episode 85
So it’s 568. And things in what will someday become England are still chaotic. Remember what was going on up north in Bernicia? Where Ida, who was pr…
13 years, 2 months ago
Dark Age Warfare Combo Episode
Season 2 Episode 83
Ok, so last time we talked about how Aethelberht of Kent invaded the kingdom of Wessex and was pushed out by Ceawlin and his army. We don’t have a lo…
13 years, 3 months ago
War. What Is It Good For?
Season 2 Episode 82
So the year is 586, and Ceawlin is the leader of the men of Wessex. Wessex has been expanding their holdings to the north and the west, and have been…
13 years, 3 months ago
In Search of Unity: A Tale of Selective Memory
Season 2 Episode 81
Ok, we have a battle coming up but things are still changing rather rapidly and there’s some interesting stuff to cover regarding that, such as langu…
13 years, 3 months ago
Bloodletting
Season 2 Episode 80
Ok, when we left off, Ida had become king of Bernicia and we had the beginnings of regional cultural groups. These groups were the result of a whole …
13 years, 3 months ago
It's Only Natural
Season 2 Episode 78
I’m going to wrap up the discussion of the development of regional cultures with a talk on an omnipresent (yet often ignored) influence on all of hum…
13 years, 4 months ago
Cliques: How the In Crowd Created Our Culture
Season 2 Episode 77
Ok, when we last left off, we were talking about a new class of elites in sub-roman britain. A group of individuals we identify as anglo saxons and k…
13 years, 4 months ago