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1.10 - 3 The Mercian Supremacy
Season 1 Episode 10
After Wulfhere, Aethelred and Aethelbald laid the foundations, a prince from the Hwicce, Offa, took Mercia to its greatest achievements.
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1.9 - 2: The Rise of Mercia
Season 1 Episode 9
Pretty much a century in just one, fun-filled episode - 650 ish to 750 is. It's Mercia's turn - an increasingly integrated Mercia, growing in power. …
15 years ago
1.8 Revival
Season 1 Episode 9
Towns had simply disappeared along with the post Roman economy by 500. But slowly by 600 there's tiny shoots of recovery discernible - so we talk abo…
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1.7 Conversion
Season 1 Episode 8
At the start of the 7th century England was a basically pagan country; by the end of it it was officially at least Christian. While no doubt many pag…
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1.6 The Life and Times of Penda II
Season 1 Episode 7
Through much of the 7th Century, Penda increased the power and influence of the Mercians. He built his kingdom as a traditional warrior, tribal leade…
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1.5 The Life and Times of Penda I
Season 1 Episode 6
7th Century England was inherently unstable, populated by a patchwork of communities, petty kingdoms successful and less so. Into this pagan mix also…
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1.4 Founding Kingdoms
Season 1 Episode 5
It's difficult to know how much to believe of the stories relayed in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle about the formation of the early kingdoms - do they si…
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1.3 Building a New World
Season 1 Episode 4
What kind of society had arrived in Roman Britain? How how did societies and communities form and become the kingdoms before the days of the Heptarch…
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1.2 Adventus Saxonum
Season 1 Episode 3
The traditional story of the arrival of the Anglo Saxons is one of death and destruction, and the catastrophic and complete replacement of a British …
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1.1 Change and Calamity
Season 1 Episode 2
This is the story of late antique Britain. How in the 3rd to 5th centuries, Britain went through two waves of economic dislocation and transformation…
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