Anglo Saxon England Podcast
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Anglo Saxon England Podcast
Series 1 is a concise social and political history of England from the 5th to 11th centuries.Series 2 is a social history how society and lordship worked during and directly after the migration period. It then looks at how that culture evolved, as the impact of economic development and the Viking in...
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45 Episoden3.4 Cerdic the Founder of England by Paul Harper
Alfred the Great believed that the House of Wessex stretched back to the earliest days of Anglo Saxon England, to the early 6th century, and that the...
3.3 Seasons
How people in Anglo Saxon England viewed the seasons that meant so much to their health, happiness and survival. From the iron-bound Winter, to the fr...
3.2 The Fens - Home to Monsters and Hermits
Marie Hilder talks about the 'English Holy Land' during the time of the Anglo Saxons - the landscape, monasteries and hermits -and the tale of Herewar...
3.1 The Sutton Hoo King
In May 1939, in the shadow of impeding war, Edith Pretty comissioned local archaeologist basil Brown to investigate the largest of a series of mounds...
2.9 Norman Transformation?
1066 and the Norman conquest undoubtedly came with dramatic change in personel and architecture. But did it extend much below the elites, did it chang...
2.8 A New Landscape
From 9th century, the increasing intensfication of agriculture and population growth led to a transformation of agriculture and settlement in the 'cha...
2.7 Rise of the Thegns
The Danish wars from the 9th century had a enormous impact on the Anglo Saxon state. The national struggle to repel and survive meant the creation of...
2.6 Life in Warland
Warland was held by all free Anglo Saxon families, and so called because the resources of the land were to be used for the waru, defence of the land....
2.5 Life on the Inland
As 7th century turns into 8th, society becomes a little more hierarchical; tribute centres like Rendlesham begin to disappear for more permanent royal...
2.4 Extensive Lordship and the Scir
The 7th and 8th centuries saw the gradual development of territorial grouping, with tribal and political identities, focussed on the lord or king. Des...
2.3 The Early Settlers
The culture of the early Free farmers of the Germanic settlers valued family, kinship and lordship. Oxfordshire may have been one of the earliest area...
2.2 The Old and the New
The departure of Rome from Britain and the Romano British society that follows is the story of many generations. After a brief overview the episode tu...
2.1 Land, Lordship and People - Introduction
I am reviving my old Anglo Saxon England podcast, with a new, limited series of 9 episodes about Anglo Saxon society, and what made it tick. This epis...
1.32 - 22 1066 and Goodbye to all That
1066 was a year that changed a lot of things - though not as much as you might think. 3 experienced war leaders fought for control of England - and we...
1.31 - 31 The Normans - A Race Unbridled
The Normans made a massive impact on Europe, not just England. They went on to establish a kingdom in Southern Italy, and lead the Crusades and the re...
1.30 - 20 England in the 11th Century
Anglo Saxon England has been seen by some commentators as a bit of a basket case by 1066 - out of date and ready to be conquered. But actually England...
1.29 - 19 Edward the Confessor
Edward enjoyed one year of independence in 1051-2, before the return of Godwin forced him into humiliating submission. But after Godwin’s death the fo...
1.28 - 18 The End of the Danish Dynasty
Cnut’s dynasty survived him by only 7 years, and in 1042 the house of Cerdic returned in the form of Edward the Confessor. Edward is an enigma – weak...
1.27 - 17 Cnut the Conqueror
Cnut was pretty much the complete king. Conqueror of the English, ruler of a Scandinavian empire that spanned 4 countries. And a man who knew how to w...
1.26 - 16 Ironside
In 1012, Aethelred looked down and out. But Svein died, and Edmund Ironside appeared on the scene. Suddenly, Aethelred was a real king and all action,...
1.25 - 15 Æthelred, Forkbeard and Misery
The Danish threat is notched up a few levels, and Æthelred the Unready and the English state is brought to it knees. The Vikings are too fast, skillfu...
1.24 - 14 The Rising Tide
Aethelred's mother gets her son onto the throne at last. But it's not long before the disadvantages of kingship become clear, as the Danes begin to re...
1.23 - 13 The Golden Age
Edgar the Peaceable's reign was a golden age of peace, prosperity and monastic reform. Unfortunately, once he'd gone his wife stuck a knife into her s...
1.22 Last King in Jorvik
Edmund the Magnificent and Eadred finally defeat Eric Bloodaxe, the last king of Jorvik. But there are some social clouds on the horizon.
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1.21 His Years were full of Glory
Athelstan was a dynamic and effective ruler, in war, law, and diplomacy. As a war leader he established at least nominal overlordship of all Britain;...
1.20 English Reconquest
The story of a brother and a sister - Æthelflæd and Edward, and their bid to reclaim the lands of the Danelaw, the north and east of England being set...
1.19 Pillar of the Western People
In 892, the vikings returned - and found a very different, much better prepared Wessex waiting for them. Until in 899, Alfred died to be succeeded by...
1.18 Reconstruction and Defence
Alfred had earned Wessex and period of respite, between 878 and 892. In this time, Alfred laid the foundations not just for the defense against renewe...
1.17 Alfred and the Fight for Survival
Between 871 and 878, Wessex came close to extinction, as the Great Heathen Army, the Great Summer Army, and Guthrum the Dane came to conquer.
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1.16 The Great Heathen Army
Everything changed for Anglo Saxon England in 866; the sons of Ragnar Lothbrok came for conquest, not just treasure and slaves.
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1.15 The Noble Wolf
Æthelwolf hasn't always had the best press. None the less he laid the basis of an effective and well organised state centred on the traditional heartl...
1.14 Pirates from the North
This week's installment in the History of England is about the Pirates of the north that changed the course of England's history - the Vikings.
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1.13 Greater Wessex
The death of Offa & his son led to the bloodletting normal when the succession was a bun fight. But this time round, it would have longer term consequ...
1.12 The Mercian Supremacy
After Wulfhere, Aethelred and Aethelbald laid the foundations, a prince from the Hwicce, Offa, took Mercia to its greatest achievements.
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1.11 The Rise of Mercia
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. W...
1.10 Revival
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 abou...
1.9 Conversion
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 paga...
1.8 The Life and Times of Penda Part II
Through much of the 7th Century, Penda increased the power and influence of the Mercians. He built his kingdom as a traditional warrior, tribal leader...
1.7 The Life and Times of Penda Part I
7th Century England was inherently unstable, populated by a patchwork of communities, petty kingdoms successful and less so. Into this pagan mix also...
1.6 Founding Kingdoms
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 sim...