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 invasions wrought changes in lordship and political structures. It looks also at the landscape - how it affected peoples' lives, how the Anglo Saxons shaped it in turn - and some of the marks ordinary people left for us to see today. And lastly, it considers whether the Norman conquest effected deep change or merely accelerated processes already underway. Sister series of The History of England podcast, with which is shares the contents of Series 1. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

1.1 Why, oh Why?

September 13, 2015 • 7 mins

This is just the start...a brief explanation of why I've decided to start a new podcast on Anglo Saxon England. As if I need an excuse.

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1.2 Chronicles and Arguments

September 20, 2015 • 32 mins

This week is about the people who kept a written record of the Anglo Saxon age, and what later generations thought about the Anglo Saxons.

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1.3 Change and Calamity

September 27, 2015 • 33 mins

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, that changed the face of British society.

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1.4 Adventus Saxonum

October 21, 2015 • 37 mins

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 population by a new Germanic race within a generation. But there are other theories too - much more peaceful, much more gradual.

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1.5 Building a New World

November 7, 2015 • 31 mins

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 Heptarchy.

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1.6 Founding Kingdoms

December 6, 2015 • 34 mins

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 simply reflect the history they wished they'd had? Plus, was Arthur a legend or reality?

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1.7 The Life and Times of Penda Part I

December 20, 2015 • 37 mins

7th Century England was inherently unstable, populated by a patchwork of communities, petty kingdoms successful and less so. Into this pagan mix also comes the lure of Christianity again. Meanwhile, in central England a pagan warrior called Penda became king, probably in 626.

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1.8 The Life and Times of Penda Part II

January 10, 2016 • 35 mins

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 - defeating the Northumbrians, and East Anglians, raiding and gathering treasure, rewarding his followers; spreading his influence by marriage, exercising control by influence where he could, by force where he could not. In the long run, Penda was part of the past, rather than the fu...

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1.9 Conversion

January 24, 2016 • 30 mins

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 pagans still held on, Whitred of Kent's laws began to embed Christianity into the fabric of English kingdoms.

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1.10 Revival

February 14, 2016 • 34 mins

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 about towns. And we have a hack at something a little tiny bit more literary, and talk of Continental Missionaries.

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1.11 The Rise of Mercia

March 7, 2016 • 28 mins

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. With yer Wulfhere's and Æthelbalds, Mercia's hegemony was held back only by Ine of Wessex and Wihtred of Kent.

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1.12 The Mercian Supremacy

March 27, 2016 • 39 mins

After Wulfhere, Aethelred and Aethelbald laid the foundations, a prince from the Hwicce, Offa, took Mercia to its greatest achievements.

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1.13 Greater Wessex

October 2, 2016 • 39 mins

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 consequences for the balance of power.

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1.14 Pirates from the North

October 23, 2016 • 34 mins

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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1.15 The Noble Wolf

November 6, 2016 • 37 mins

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 heartlands of Wessex, and one better placed to meet the Viking threat than other kingdoms.

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1.16 The Great Heathen Army

November 20, 2016 • 31 mins

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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1.17 Alfred and the Fight for Survival

December 4, 2016 • 31 mins

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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1.18 Reconstruction and Defence

December 18, 2016 • 30 mins

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 renewed invasions, but for the successes of the 10th century.

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1.19 Pillar of the Western People

January 1, 2017 • 27 mins

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 his Son, Edward, who would in the end turn the tables on the Vikings.

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1.20 English Reconquest

January 15, 2017 • 38 mins

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 settled by the Danes

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Anglo Saxon England Podcast

Episodes

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1.3 Change and Calamity

1.4 Adventus Saxonum

1.5 Building a New World

1.6 Founding Kingdoms

1.7 The Life and Times of Penda Part I

1.8 The Life and Times of Penda Part II

1.9 Conversion

1.10 Revival

1.11 The Rise of Mercia

1.12 The Mercian Supremacy

1.13 Greater Wessex

1.14 Pirates from the North

1.15 The Noble Wolf

1.16 The Great Heathen Army

1.17 Alfred and the Fight for Survival

1.18 Reconstruction and Defence

1.19 Pillar of the Western People

1.20 English Reconquest

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1.1 Why, oh Why?

1.2 Chronicles and Arguments