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338 – The Fall of King Edmund Ironsides
27 december 2019 · 38 min
Edmund hadn’t lost, and for now that was enough.
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337 – The Rise of King Edmund Ironside
22 december 2019 · 32 min
Can you feel it? It feels like there is a lull before the storm. AEthelred Unread is now gone, and Normandy is now officially on the board. 1066 is on the doorstep.
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336 – The End Is The Beginning Is The End
11 december 2019 · 39 min
Christmas is old. Older than Christianity, in fact. Lees meer
As a consequence, there’s a lot to it. Symbols and traditions that come from all over the world, and from all across time. It’s a complex event that, predictably, can provoke a complex set of emotions from people.
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335 – Acts of Spasmodic Violence
26 november 2019 · 23 min
Morcar and Sigeferth were under a lot of stress.
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334 – No Cnut November
14 november 2019 · 33 min
There are worse things than spending a holiday in Normandy. And one of those things is spending a holiday in Normandy because you just lost your entire Kingdom to the Danes.
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333 – The Conquest of England
8 november 2019 · 34 min
England in 1013 was a Kingdom begging to be conquered. Decades of bad decisions have eroded its foundations and now it sat as a mere shadow of its former glory. It had none of the military prowess established by King AEthelstan. None of the political stability enjoyed under King Edgar. And none of the smart planning created by King Alfred. Lees meer
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Teig O’Kane and the Corpse
31 oktober 2019 · 23 min
Happy Halloween
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332 – The Jomsvikings
25 oktober 2019 · 29 min
So here we are. With two full companies of Jomsvikings laying waste to southern England… and in response, the nobility… the people tasked with defending the population and the Kingdom… decided that this was an excellent chance to fight among themselves, do a bit of pirating, and arrange a political marriage. Lees meer
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331 – Thoughts and Prayers
17 oktober 2019 · 25 min
AEthelred, for the first time in quite a while, had a chance for a breather. King Sweyn Forkbeard, having been paid a king’s ransom, had withdrawn his forces with a promise never to return.
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330 – The Purge
7 oktober 2019 · 27 min
The Court of AEthelred had turned over three times during his reign. First, there was his regency council. Then, when he took full power he replaced his regency council with his young friends and corrupt enablers. Then the old guard reasserted itself, along with the powerful Wulf dynasty of the midlands in the 990s. Lees meer
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329 – Forkbeard
27 september 2019 · 32 min
When you go to your local grocery store there’s a pattern. You go down your usual aisles, grab your bread, your tea, that thing you know you’re not supposed to eat but do anyway because it is delicious and you have no self control.
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328 – The St Brice’s Day Massacre
20 september 2019 · 24 min
The year 1002 was still 64 years away from 1066, but The House of Normandy had already begun a coup upon the Kingdom of England. The dynasty held only a minor Duchy, and for a fairly short amount of time, as it was only Duke Richard’s great grandfather Rollo who had established it. Lees meer
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327 – Sail Away Sail Away Sail Away
14 september 2019 · 31 min
Now that we’ve checked in with the rest of the world, let’s get back to our story…which lately hasn’t been going so well. In the space of 70 years the Kingdom went from a preeminent power in the West to little more than a viking hunting preserve.
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326 – The Year 1000
8 september 2019 · 36 min
It’s so easy to lose the forest for the trees. This show is a show about one small island which, even at this part of the story, is still at the edge of civilization. It is very easy to forget that there is a whole other world out there…
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325 – From Bad to Worse
24 augustus 2019 · 22 min
When we left off, England was reforming its legal structure. Now, law isn’t known for being a sexy subject…neither are lawyers for that matter. But law shapes our societies in ways that are so fundamental that they are often invisible to us. And these reforms are no exception. These codes go on to transform English […] Lees meer
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324 – Law and Lawlessness
21 augustus 2019 · 22 min
With the Scandinavian raiders gone, and with AElfric of Hampshire defanged, England was free to get back to work. And, as we saw last episode, this meant that the King was once again redistributing wealth from the have-a-lots to the have-even-mores. Lees meer
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323 – Brotherhood of the Wolf
10 augustus 2019 · 27 min
The Dowager Queen AElfthryth has returned to the King’s inner council following what looks like a political coup against AElfic of Hampshire and his faction. And just because it was political doesn’t mean it was bloodless. All of AElfric’s allies were dead. Only AElfric himself, who appears to have been too big to fail, remained […] Lees meer
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PSA: Are We Dead?
3 augustus 2019 · 2 min
(We aren’t) Lees meer
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322 – We’re Absolutely Forked
12 juli 2019 · 31 min
Ealdorman AElfirc of Hampshire was out… and Ealdorman AEthelweard the Chronicler was in. He would now be the King’s chief councillor… and he would be supported by his son, AEthelmaer… the King’s uncle, High Reeve Ordwulf of Devon, and the King’s mother, AEthelthryth. Lees meer
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321 – Course Corrections
7 juli 2019 · 25 min
992 was a bad year. There was treason, Vikings, the King’s closest advisor absconded with half the navy, and tipped off an enemy invasion with just enough time to let them escape. Lees meer
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320 – Our Wooden Wall
27 juni 2019 · 21 min
The Battle of Maldon was a catastrophe. The brave last stand of Ealdorman Byrhtnoth was never going to change that fact. He was the leading man of Essex and the second most powerful Ealdorman in England and now he was dead. And his Fyrd was defeated. Lees meer
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319 – The Battle of Maldon
21 juni 2019 · 32 min
Battles don’t appear out of thin air, not even in honor cultures. There’s a reason, a context, that develops long before soldiers or warriors enter a field prepared to do violence. And the Battle of Maldon comes with a lot of context. We left off in 988… and on that year, Archbishop Dunstan, who had […] Lees meer
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318 – Chaos is a Ladder
13 juni 2019 · 29 min
By 984 the Regency council had been broken and a new inner circle of nobles had been elevated. And this development was accompanied by a rapid series of changes at the highest levels of the kingdom. The political rivals of this new council were rapidly losing power, with titles (and even lands) of wealthy dynasties […] Lees meer
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317 – A Culture of Corruption
30 mei 2019 · 27 min
At 16 years old, King AEthelred was considered fully grown by Anglo Saxon standards. And as a bonus graduation present, the powerful Bishop AEthelwold of Winchester… who appears to have been the defacto head of state while AEthelred was a child… had died. Lees meer
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316 – The Old Guard
24 mei 2019 · 26 min
Before we get back to our story, I’ve been seeing your conversations online and it made me realize I need to clarify something. Some of you took the discussion of AEthelred’s unflattering nickname, and how he caught hell for some things that were out of his control or part of the common culture, and […] Lees meer
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315 – The Cracks in the Foundation
17 mei 2019 · 30 min
“Under AEthelred nothing was done; or, more truly, throughout his whole reign he left undone those things which he ought to have done, and he did those things he ought not to have done.” That is the damning conclusion of Edward Augustus Freeman, a Victorian historian, and epic beard grower. Lees meer
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314 – Æthelred: Are You Ready?
3 mei 2019 · 26 min
King Edward, like those before him, had died under mysterious and apparently violent circumstances. And the next in line for this increasingly bloody throne of England was his 12 year old little half-brother. Æthelred. Lees meer
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313 – How to Make a Martyr
25 april 2019 · 39 min
“No man can make himself king, but the people have the choice to choose as king whom they please; but after he is consecrated as king, he then has dominion over the people, and they cannot shake his yoke from their necks.” Lees meer
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312 – King Edward
20 april 2019 · 23 min
King Edgar is Dead… and in his place reigned his son, King Edward of England. And you’d think that we’d be referring to him as King Edward the First. Or, if you wanted to fudge it a bit and give Edward the Elder some credit for forming the Kingdom of the Anglo Saxons… maybe King […] Lees meer
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311 – Team Edward
11 april 2019 · 42 min
King Edgar the Peaceable was buried at Glastonbury in 975. But weirdly that isn’t the end of his story. William of Malmesbury tells us that nearly a century later, in 1053, the Abbot Ailward re-opened the King’s tomb. Malmsbury doesn’t tell us WHY the monk opened the grave, so I suppose we can just assume […] Lees meer
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310 – Political Theater
29 maart 2019 · 33 min
Human beings can’t really be summed up in a nickname. Usually we are more complicated than a word or two. And sometimes, the nickname just doesn’t reflect reality. If you take Edward the Elder, for example, the name probably conjures up an image of Gandalf. But Edward was only in his early 50’s when he […] Lees meer
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309 – Size Doesn’t Matter (until it does)
22 maart 2019 · 31 min
You would think that someone named Edgar the Peaceable enjoyed a good reputation. But the closer you look, the more things start to look…off. And if you look closer than that, you start to get the sense that maybe things WERE off. Lees meer
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308 – A Thirst for Reform
15 maart 2019 · 32 min
Across the North Sea, in Scandinavia, a man named Harald Greycloak was struggling for dominance in the region. He wasn’t just any man, he was a son of Erik Bloodaxe and Gunnhilde. And his fight brought him into direct conflict with King Haakon. Lees meer
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307 – Cleaning House
8 maart 2019 · 27 min
The King is dead. Long live the King. Eadwig, the 18 year old King known for his beauty, had died. Somehow. Lees meer
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306 – King Eadwig
2 maart 2019 · 31 min
The King is dead, long live the King. So … last episode was a bit of a shocker wasn’t it? After it launched, I got an email from a listener (who hilariously, is the daughter of a Judge that once scared the hell out of me in Court)… small world. Understandably, she was confused that […] Lees meer
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305 – A Very Special BHP Valentine’s Day Episode
14 februari 2019 · 17 min
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 and the results are usually dense at the best of times. But once in a while, in between all the battles and the politics and the dynasties, […] Lees meer
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304 – A Kingdom Divided
12 februari 2019 · 34 min
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 something important, like Bede, or when Leeds United won the premiership in 1991. Lees meer
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303 – Eric Bloodaxe
1 februari 2019 · 25 min
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 almost definitely blonde. But it wasn’t the only trait he was known for. Harald Fairhair was also known for getting around… and around… and around. According to records, […] Lees meer
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302 – King Eadred
25 januari 2019 · 22 min
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 remind ourselves of where things were politically. Lees meer
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Chapter Eight – Twilight of the Anglo Saxons
17 januari 2019 · 3 min
This isn’t going to end well. Lees meer
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301 – Common Folk
11 januari 2019 · 26 min
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. The commoners. Lees meer
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300 – Noble Lives
18 december 2018 · 25 min
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 could rival even the formidable Ealdormen. Lees meer
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299 – The Shape of Power
7 december 2018 · 37 min
Ealdormen… Thegns… Ceorls. These were the important cogs in the machine of government. They had powerful roles, and held powerful spaces within anglo saxon culture. And it’s time we get to know these roles like the back of our hand. Support the Show Lees meer
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The Achavanich Beaker Burial Project: Ancient DNA with Maya Hoole
3 december 2018 · 43 min
Links to material referenced in the show. The Achavanich Beaker Burial ‘Ava’: a Beaker-associated woman from a cist at Achavanich, Highland, and the story of her (re-)discovery and subsequent study, Published in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe at Nature.com A summary […] Lees meer
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298 – Uptown Ceorl
16 november 2018 · 37 min
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 Scandinavians arrived on the island, this village known as Wharram Percy was already well established, and had been inhabited continually for centuries. And it held strong for […] Lees meer
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297 – The Hundreds and the Wapentakes
10 november 2018 · 26 min
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 of reasons for that. The first is the simple fact that by virtue of how limited literacy was during this era, these are the lives we […] Lees meer
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The Halloween Special
26 oktober 2018 · 25 min
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. The reason I love Halloween is because in the pantheon of modern holidays it stands out. Most holidays in the western world have been rebranded and repackaged to […] Lees meer
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296 – Darkening Skies
19 oktober 2018 · 34 min
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 continent, , Hugh the Great, King Otto of Germany, Duke William of Normandy, Count Herbert II, and various other supporting characters were allied against King Louis IV, […] Lees meer
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295 – The Return of England
12 oktober 2018 · 25 min
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 simulates medieval power strategy has a piece called the bishop. Bishops had power. And it was a power that didn’t flow from the monarchy. And in britain, it […] Lees meer
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294 – It All Comes Crashing Down
5 oktober 2018 · 26 min
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 is ordered around a single figure it’s likely to descend into chaos the minute that figure goes away. And finding a new balance in the midst of sudden […] Lees meer
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