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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
A Kingdom Divided
Season 8 Episode 304
Northumbria was always the hot mess of the heptarchy. There are a few exceptions where they manage to pull it together long enough to produce somethi…
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, 8 months ago
King Eadred
Season 8 Episode 302
Ok, where were we? With all this focus on culture, it’s been a little bit since we last talked about the political situation in Britain. So lets rem…
7 years, 8 months ago
Chapter 8 - Twilight of the Anglo Saxons
Season 8 Episode 301
This isn’t going to end well.
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7 years, 8 months ago
Common Folk
Season 7 Episode 301
Today, we’re going to wrap up this cultural series with a focus on my favorite group of people. The people who rarely, if ever, get talked about. Th…
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, 10 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