Anglo Saxon England Podcast

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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...

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1.1 Why, oh Why?

Sep 13th, 2015 5:35 AM

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.

1.2 Chronicles and Arguments

Sep 20th, 2015 4:51 PM

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.

1.3 Change and Calamity

Sep 27th, 2015 1:26 PM

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.

1.4 Adventus Saxonum

Oct 21st, 2015 9:55 PM

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.

1.5 Building a New World

Nov 7th, 2015 9:07 AM

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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