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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, 1 month ago

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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, 1 month ago

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Chapter 8 - Twilight of the Anglo Saxons

Season 8 Episode 301

This isn’t going to end well.  

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7 years, 2 months ago

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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, 2 months ago

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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, 3 months ago

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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, 3 months ago

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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, 3 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, 4 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, 4 months ago

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The Halloween Special

Season 7

I love Halloween. I think it might be my favorite holiday, and it’s not really because I like spooky things. I actually kind of hate horror movies. T…

7 years, 4 months ago

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