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Anglo Saxon England Podcast

This is the story of how a new country and culture emerged from the chaos of the Dark Ages; and the story of the period that laid the foundations of modern England. Now forms the first 21 episodes of ... Read more

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3 Change and Calamity

3 Change and Calamity

This is the story of late antique Britain. How in the 3rd to 5th centuries, Britain went through two waves of economic d... Read more

27 Sep 2015

33mins

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4 Adventus Saxonum

4 Adventus Saxonum

The traditional story of the arrival of the Anglo Saxons is one of death and destruction, and the catastrophic and compl... Read more

21 Oct 2015

37mins

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5 Building a New World

5 Building a New World

What kind of society had arrived in Roman Britain? How how did societies and communities form and become the kingdoms be... Read more

7 Nov 2015

31mins

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6 Founding Kingdoms

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 th... Read more

6 Dec 2015

34mins

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7 The Life and Times of Penda Part I

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... Read more

20 Dec 2015

37mins

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10 Revival

10 Revival

Towns had simply disappeared along with the post Roman economy by 500. But slowly by 600 there's tiny shoots of recovery... Read more

14 Feb 2016

34mins

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12 The Mercian Supremacy

12 The Mercian Supremacy

After Wulfhere, Aethelred and Aethelbald laid the foundations, a prince from the Hwicce, Offa, took Mercia to its greate... Read more

27 Mar 2016

39mins

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8 The Life and Times of Penda Part II

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 trad... Read more

10 Jan 2016

35mins

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11 The Rise of Mercia

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 integrat... Read more

7 Mar 2016

28mins

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9 Conversion

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 Chris... Read more

24 Jan 2016

30mins

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