Podcasts about anglo saxons

County Durham has a deep mining and farming heritage and is located in the northeast part of England near Scotland. This is the only English county prefixed with the word "County." The history spans so many eras that are reflected in the architecture, from Roman conquest to the Anglo-Saxons to the powerful medieval palatinate ruled by Prince Bishops. And all along the way, spiritual residue was left behind. Join us for the history and hauntings of County Durham. This Month in History features the birth of Emily Warren Roebling.  Check out the website: http://historygoesbump.com Show notes can be found here: https://historygoesbump.blogspot.com/2026/09/hgb-ep-657-haunted-county-durham.html Become an Executive Producer: http://patreon.com/historygoesbump Music used in this episode: Main Theme: Creepy Carnival Theme  Created and produced by History Goes Bump Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (This Month in History) "In Your Arms" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Title: "Wizardly Intro" Artist: Tim Kulig (timkulig.com) Licensed under Creative Commons By Attribution 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0997280/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

When the Romans left Britain in the 5th century, what happened next?The following centuries saw a messy and bloody struggle for power that left us with some gruesome royal murders.Taking us through the bloody details is medieval expert and co-host of our sister podcast, Gone Medieval, Matt Lewis.This episode was edited by Anna Brant. Produced by Stuart Beckwith and McKenna Fernandez. The senior producer was Freddy Chick.Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe.You can take part in our listener survey here.All music from Epidemic Sounds.After Dark is a History Hit podcast.History Hit is part of Little Dot Studios, a Certified B Corp™Voting is now open for the Listener's Choice Award at this year's Podcast Awards. Click to place your vote on the Spotify mobile app: https://open.spotify.com/s/xhg6PJa Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is episode 4 of our Heritage Harbours short series, celebrating the Heritage Harbour initiative which seeks to protect and revive historic ports, docks, canals and waterfronts that still retain a genuine working maritime character.Ipswich holds a remarkable place in maritime history: it can claim links with Anglo-Saxon kings, the Hanseatic trading network, the circumnavigation of the globe, the founding of English America, and one of Britain's busiest modern commercial estuaries.The story begins nearly 1,400 years ago, when the Anglo-Saxon kings of East Anglia established one of England's very first international trading ports on the River Orwell. Just a few miles away lies Sutton Hoo, where one of the greatest archaeological discoveries in Europe revealed the splendour of those early kings. But if Sutton Hoo tells us about royal power, Ipswich tells us where much of that wealth came from. Merchants here were trading across the North Sea centuries before England even existed as a united kingdom.By the Middle Ages, Ipswich had become one of England's great commercial ports, trading extensively with the great merchant cities of northern Europe through the Hanseatic League—that remarkable alliance of trading towns stretching from London to the Baltic. Those connections helped bring timber, iron, grain and countless other goods to the town, while East Anglia's agricultural produce flowed in the opposite direction. Today, Ipswich celebrates those historic links as a member of the New Hanse, a modern network of towns that share this extraordinary trading heritage.Fast forward to the Age of Discovery and the Ipswich area produced a quite remarkable trio of maritime pioneers.First came Sir Thomas Cavendish, from nearby Trimley, who became only the second Englishman to sail around the world. Inspired by Francis Drake, he deliberately set out to circumnavigate the globe, raiding Spanish shipping as he went and capturing one of the richest prizes of the Elizabethan age—the treasure-laden Manila galleon Santa Ana.Sailing with him was an Ipswich merchant called Thomas Eldred, the first known man from the town to circumnavigate the globe. Unlike Cavendish, Eldred wasn't an aristocrat or an adventurer. He was a businessman. Returning home, he became one of Ipswich's leading merchants and an early supporter of the East India Company, helping turn England's age of exploration into an age of global trade.Then, just a few years later, came Bartholomew Gosnold, born at nearby Otley. Long before the Pilgrim Fathers sailed on the Mayflower, Gosnold crossed the Atlantic, explored and named Cape Cod, and went on to help found Jamestown—the first permanent English settlement in North America. In many ways, he helped lay the foundations of English America.Today, Ipswich is proud to be one of the UK's Heritage Harbours, but this isn't simply a place that preserves its past. It's still a thriving commercial port, exporting grain from the fertile fields of East Anglia to markets around the world. It's a wonderful example of a harbour that has never stopped working. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

fWotD Episode 3424: Ashton-under-Lyne Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles.The featured article for Saturday, 19 September 2026, is Ashton-under-Lyne.Ashton-under-Lyne, also known simply as Ashton, is a market town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom. The population was 48,604 at the 2021 census. Historically a part of Lancashire, it is on the north bank of the River Tame, in the foothills of the Pennines, six miles (ten kilometres) east of Manchester.Evidence of Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Viking activity has been discovered in Ashton-under-Lyne. The "Ashton" part of the town's name probably dates from the Anglo-Saxon period, and derives from Old English meaning "settlement by ash trees". The origin of the "under-Lyne" suffix is less clear; it possibly derives from the Brittonic-originating word lemo meaning elm or from Ashton's proximity to the Pennines. In the Middle Ages, Ashton-under-Lyne was a parish and township and Ashton Old Hall was held by the de Asshetons, lords of the manor. The town became a market town from 1414 when the manor was granted a royal charter.The introduction of the cotton trade in 1769 transformed Ashton both economically and geographically, with the town being replanned in a grid. The factory system, and textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution triggered a process of unplanned urbanisation in the area, and by the mid-19th century Ashton had emerged as an important mill town at a convergence of newly constructed canals and railways. Ashton-under-Lyne's transport network allowed for an economic boom in cotton spinning, weaving, and coal mining, which led to the granting of municipal borough status in 1847. The population grew from 2,859 in 1775 to 34,886 in 1861, two-thirds of its modern-day size, as a direct result of this extensive industrialisation.The town saw significant economic decline in the 1920s, with the majority of its mills closing due to insufficient exports. Nevertheless, the town has continued to thrive as a centre of commerce, and Ashton Market is one of the largest outdoor markets in the United Kingdom. In response to high levels of unemployment and deprivation since the town's deindustrialisation, Ashton-under-Lyne underwent extensive regeneration over the course of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Modelled on the nearby town of Hyde, this included both local infrastructure improvements and a focus on training and education. The bus and tram networks were integrated into a single hub which opened in 2020, with plans to connect the National Rail station as well. A second wave of local regeneration has begun in the 2020s, with mayor Andy Burnham designating the area as a Mayoral Development Zone, and promising investment into housing, businesses, and green space. Ashton Town Centre is now home to the Ashton Arcades shopping centre (opened 1995), a large IKEA store (opened 2006), and Ashton Market (reopened 2008), which was voted the best in the country in 2014. Further development of the outdoor market is continuing with the replacement of over 100 stalls by a canopied area with cabins and stalls.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:29 UTC on Saturday, 19 September 2026.For the full current version of the article, see Ashton-under-Lyne on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm standard Emma.

On this week's show, Dave is joined by guest host Digger Dawn and guests Lisa and Vicky - the Deus Girls. They chat about how they got into the hobby, their best finds, their detecting adventures and, of course, why the XP Deus has become such a big part of their detecting.Oh and Adrian is on holiday and joins the show.... Then ends it!!!!!Sponsored by Metal Detecting NewsBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-big-detecting-show--3690873/support.

Get the Exploring Tolkien App to listen to every episode, a Tolkien calendar, the latest news, and member exclusives! Túrin Turambar has officially abandoned the protection of Doriath, choosing instead to live as an outlaw among murderers and cutthroats. In our breakdown of the first part of Chapter 6 of The Children of Húrin, we explore Túrin’s tragic descent into darkness, his absolute refusal to live under anyone else’s law, and how a deadly “accident” turns him into the captain of the Wolf-Men. We also look at: How Túrin's slaying of Forwëg perfectly mirrors the tragedy of Saeros in Doriath. Ú The fascinating real-world Anglo-Saxon history behind Tolkien’s “Wolf-Heads.” The exact moment in the lore where Tolkien paused writing The Silmarillion to start The Lord of the Rings. Túrin’s Toll & Titles: Adding new names and fresh victims to our running tally! Plus, a quick “look” of the Rings of Power DVD release and great news about J.R.R. Tolkien’s favorite pub reopening. In our extended episode (available for members who’ve downloaded the Exploring Tolkien app and at https://theonering.com/members), we get into: Is Túrin good? We debate his morality and choices

Trong tháng 5/2026, chính phủ Anh thực hiện nốt cuộc cải cách Viện Quý tộc (House of Lords), đưa hết các nhà quý tộc có quyền kế vị ra khỏi cơ quan lập pháp tương đương Thượng nghị viện, chấm dứt bảy thế kỷ truyền thống chính trị - văn hóa Anh. Câu chuyện này có ý nghĩa ra sao và cuộc cải cách do đảng Lao động Anh thực hiện có thực sự dân chủ hóa hệ thống lập pháp ở Vương quốc Anh ? Mời quý vị theo dõi phần giải thích từ thông tín viên Nguyễn Giang tại Luân Đôn. ----- ***** ----- RFI Tiếng Việt : Thân chào anh Nguyễn Gianh. Đầu tiên xin anh cho biết dự án « Cải tổ Viện Quý tộc Vương quốc Anh » gồm những nét chính nào ? TTV. Nguyễn Giang : Vâng, đầu tiên tôi xin nói đây là cuộc cải tổ lần thứ 2 mà bộ máy chính trị Anh thực hiện để xóa dần đi di sản thời phong kiến có từ năm 1066 ở Anh. Cả hai lần đều là sáng kiến của đảng Lao động Anh (Labour). Lần trước sau khi ông Tony Blair lên làm thủ tướng nhờ phe Lao động thắng cử năm 1997, thì tới năm 1999, chính phủ và Hạ viện Anh đã thông qua Luật Cải tổ House of Lords lần một, đuổi ra khỏi Viện Quý tộc 759 vị quý tộc có quyền kế vị nhiều đời và chỉ giữ lại 92 vị. Nói ngắn gọn thì họ thuộc về 600 dòng họ quý tộc thực thụ còn lại ở Anh. Đây là nhóm có quyền kế vị (hereditary nobility), tức là đời cha chết đi thì các tước như công tước, hầu tước, bá tước, nam tước, đi kèm lâu đài, điền sản họ sở hữu từ nhiều thế kỷ được truyền lại cho con trai cả (theo luật ưu tiên trưởng nam-primogeniture), và những người kế vị này sẽ bầu chọn lẫn nhau để nghiễm nhiên thừa hưởng ghế trong The House of Lords, như một đặc quyền. Năm nay, chính phủ của đảng Lao động do Sir Keir Starmer làm thủ tướng, thực hiện cam kết tranh cử là cải tổ Viện Quý tộc. Hạ viện Anh đã thông qua luật hồi tháng Ba, xóa vĩnh viễn quyền kế vị các ghế dành cho quý tộc trong House of Lords. Thế nhưng, để xoa dịu sự phản đối của 92 vị còn lại, thì Văn phòng Phủ Thủ tướng đồng ý để 26 người quay lại giữ ghế trong Viện Quý tộc nhưng phải đổi áo, nhận bổ nhiệm là Lord một đời, do các đảng chính trị bổ nhiệm vào. Họ sẽ ở đó cho tới cuối đời và sau đó thì chỉ có các Thượng nghị sĩ (life peers) còn hoạt động trong Viện Quý tộc. Hiện con số những người không phải quý tộc có quyền kế vị là chừng 800, cũng rất đông. Dư luận Anh lâu nay ủng hộ việc cả tổ House of Lords. Một khảo sát do Đại học University College London (UCL) thực hiện giữa năm 2025 cho thấy 60% người dân muốn loại các vị quý tộc cha truyền con nối ra khỏi cơ quan này và chỉ có 22% không ủng hộ cải cách. Điều đáng nói nữa là 79% ủng hộ việc tước quyền của Thủ tướng Anh bổ nhiệm người thân tín vào House of Lords. Ví dụ như Lord Peter Mandelson, được đảng Lao Động và thủ tướng Keir Starmer đề cử, và có tước quý tộc một đời. Nay ông ta dính vào tai tiếng Epstein ở Mỹ, và bị cảnh sát điều tra, nhưng tước Lordship của ông ta vẫn còn đó.  Những chuyện như vậy khiến dư luận bất bình. Những người chỉ trích nói đây là một dạng đặc quyền, đặc lợi được trao tặng trọn đời nhờ thân quen. Anh có thể giải thích thêm về hai loại quý tộc, nhóm có quyền kế vị (hereditary peers) và nhóm chỉ nhận tước phong một đời (life peers) được không ? Cho tới nay chế độ phong kiến ở Anh để lại chừng 600 gia đình nhà quý tộc thực thụ, sở hữu chừng 800 tước hiệu, công tước, hầu tước, bá tước, nam tước. Số gia tộc ít hơn số tước hiệu vì một số nhà sở hữu cả tước công và tước hầu, tước bá, theo lãnh địa mà họ làm chủ. Ví dụ Công tước xứ Norfolk (Edward Fitzalan-Howard) đồng thời là bá tước xứ Surrey (Earl of Surrey). Hai vùng đất này ở hai chỗ khác nhau. Số quý tộc này không tăng, không giảm trong nhiều thế kỷ qua vì được truyền từ đời này sang đời kia, và theo nguyên tắc ưu tiên trưởng nam, nên con trai cả sẽ thừa hưởng tước vị đó chứ tước vị không được chia ra cho các con. Riêng quý tộc Scotland trong một số trường hợp được truyền lại tước vị cho con gái cả, nếu nhà quý tộc chết đi mà không có con trai. Hàng năm Hoàng gia phong tặng chừng 2000 huân huy chương, tước vị khác nhau, từ huy chương Thành viên Đế quốc Anh (MBE-Member of the British Empire), danh hiệu Sĩ quan Đế quốc Anh (OBE-Officer of the British Empire), cao nhất trong nhóm này là Chỉ huy của Đế quốc Anh (CBE-Commnader of the British Empire), cho tới danh hiệu Hiệp sĩ (Knight) như cầu thủ David Beckham, ca sĩ Elton John được trao. Nam tước là cấp thấp nhất trong 5 tước quý tộc Anh và mỗi năm có khoảng 25-50 người được Hoàng gia phong tặng. Nam tước (baron) hoặc nữ nam tước (baroness) thường được chọn nhờ công trạng hoặc do Thủ tướng chỉ định. Họ được quyền ngồi vào House of Lords. Vì sao Anh quốc phải cải cách Viện Quý tộc vào lúc này ? Nguồn gốc của Viện Quý tộc có từ Thế kỷ 11 khi Hội đồng Phụ chính Đại thần (Curia Regis) được Vua « William – Nhà chinh phạt » thành lập để tư vấn cho vua. Xin nhắc đây là vị vua từ Pháp sang chiếm đảo Anh và ngai vàng Anh nên ông ấy áp dụng các cơ chế phong kiến từ Pháp, xóa đi các hội đồng quý tộc nhỏ lẻ theo vùng miền của người Anglo-Saxon, và cho một nhóm nhỏ gồm các nam tước (barons) và các lãnh đạo giáo hội cấp cao (giám mục) vào hội đồng này. Họ đóng vai trò cố vấn cho nhà vua về việc thu thuế và ban hành luật pháp. Đây chính là "hạt giống" đầu tiên của Thượng viện. Từ thế kỷ 13, khi Bản Hiến chương Tự do (Magna Carta) được ký kế năm 1215, buộc nhà vua phải tham vấn ý kiến của các quý tộc trước khi thu thuế vì Hội đồng này mở rộng cho đại diện các gia tộc hùng mạnh, giàu có nhất của nước Anh, gồm các công tước, bá tước, hầu tước...vào ngồi. Đến năm 1295, Vua Edward I triệu tập ‘Model Parliament' (Nghị viện Kiểu mẫu). Lần đầu tiên, ngoài các quý tộc và giới tăng lữ còn có đại diện của quý tộc-quân sự thấp hơn (hiệp sĩ- knights) và và thị dân tham dự. Nghị viện Anh như thế có cả hai nhóm, cao thấp khác nhau. Sang thế kỷ 14, vào khoảng năm 1341 thì viện này tách ra làm hai : House of Lords tập trung các đại quý tộc, tăng lữ và House of Commons còn gọi là Viện Thứ dân, gồm các hiệp sĩ (giới võ sĩ có ngựa chiến, gươm kiếm đánh thuê cho đại quý tộc) và là đại diện dân địa phương các quận hạt, đa số là thị dân. Nhu cầu cải tổ Viện Quý tộc để biến nó thành Thượng Nghị Viện (Senate) như ở Pháp, Mỹ và nhiều nước châu Âu khác đã được bàn đến hơn 30 năm qua. Lý do là một nền dân chủ thì không thể nào duy trì cơ chế cho ai đó hưởng đặc quyền làm nhà lập pháp cao cấp (tương đương chức Thượng nghị sĩ) theo kiểu cha truyền con nối, mà phải được bầu cử, hoặc ít ra là bổ nhiệm nhờ công trạng, thành tích cá nhân với quốc gia. Như vậy, so với các nước châu Âu khác thì Anh Quốc là quốc gia duy nhất có Viện Quý tộc vẫn tồn tại ? Đúng vậy, chúng ta phải nhắc rằng đây là một di sản lâu đời, có ít nhất gần 1000 năm tuổi, nhưng là di sản đem từ Pháp sang. Mà nước Pháp sau Cách mạng 1789 đã xóa sổ hoàn toàn tầng lớp quý tộc. Nước Đức từng là đế chế mà cũng xóa danh hiệu quý tộc, từ đầu thế kỷ 20. Nên ngày nay ai có nhận danh xưng nam tước, bá tước, ví dụ ‘Graf von' gì đó thì phải gắn vào họ, và để xưng hô mang tính cá nhân, còn về mặt pháp lý, không có ai là bá tước, công tước gì ở Đức nữa cả. Ngay cả các nước Bắc Âu có vua nhưng cũng không còn tầng lớp quý tộc được quyền chính trị như ở Anh. Các nước Đông Âu một thời theo ý thức hệ công nông, xã hội chủ nghĩa thì đã xóa hẳn chức danh quý tộc từ lâu rồi. Chỉ riêng Anh quốc vẫn có Hoàng gia và các tước quý tộc kế vị, cùng quý tộc phong tặng. Anh có thể giải thích thêm là Anh quốc muốn cải tổ Viện Quý tộc thì mục đích cuối cùng của họ là gì ? Mục tiêu sẽ là dần dần biến House of Lords thành một thượng viện thực thụ như ở các nước khác. Tức là trong hệ thống dân chủ đại nghị thì thượng viện thường ít quyền hơn hạ viện nhưng đóng vai trò giám sát, chất vấn lại các đảng chính trị trong hạ viện để công tác soạn thảo, thông qua các bộ luật được tốt hơn. Thượng Viện, như ở Hoa Kỳ, còn đóng vai trò định hướng chính sách ngoại giao. Còn hiện nay, bước cải tổ năm nay mới chỉ giảm đi số nhà quý tộc có quyền kế vị. Viện Quý tộc ở Anh vẫn có quá nhiều thành viên, đa số các các vị được các đảng phái đề cử vào và nhà vua tấn phong. Con số này hiện vẫn là trên 800. Điều này gây ra ba vấn đề : Một là thiếu chỗ ngồi. Trụ sở Nghị viện Anh, gồm lưỡng viện Quốc hội, trong Cung điện Westminster ở Luân Đôn chỉ có 400 ghế cho House of Lords, nên khi nào có quá 400 vị tới dự họp thì một số phải đứng. Thứ hai, làm thành viên Viện Quý tộc là việc làm mang tính đóng góp, không ăn lương, chỉ được trả tiền theo giờ họp nên thực ra không thu hút được nhân tài. Thứ ba là vị trí không có nhiệm kỳ, nên ngoài 80 tuổi, vẫn có tên trong Viện Quý tộc và không dự họp vì sức khỏe yếu thì cũng không sao. Cả ba điều này khiến Viện Quý tộc chưa thể vận hành chuyên nghiệp, chuyên trách như một Thượng viện thực thụ.   Hiện có yêu cầu giảm số thành viên xuống khoảng 600 và đặt ra tuổi hưu ở tuổi 80. Kể cả khi đạt được điều đó thì Viện Quý tộc vẫn là cơ quan khác lạ so với sinh hoạt chính trị-xã hội ở Anh, vì tuổi hưu chung là 67, thì tại sao làm thành viên House of Lords lại có thể, (hoặc bị buộc phải) làm việc tới 80. Rất nhiều câu hỏi chưa có lời đáp.

On 25 September 1066, King Harold Godwinson won a crushing Anglo Saxon victory at Stamford Bridge, destroying the invading Norwegian army of Harald Hardrada and Harold's own brother Tostig just days before the Norman landing at Hastings. Harold's army had marched roughly 185 miles north in under a week, catching the Vikings by surprise as many were camped east of the River Derwent without their armour on a hot day.  The English surged across (and around) the bridge, broke the Norwegian line, and drove them back toward their ships in a bloody rout in which both Hardrada and Tostig were killed. Contemporary chronicles stress the ferocity and the scale of the slaughter, of around 300 ships that had brought the invaders, only about 20 25 were needed to carry the survivors home.  One famous passage even describes a lone Norwegian holding the bridge against the English until he was speared from below, allowing Harold's men to pour across and finish the battle. Stamford Bridge ended the last serious Viking attempt to conquer England and secured the north for Harold but at heavy cost.  

Today, Koko is travelling back over 1,400 years to experience an Anglo-Saxon school! But with a super-strict teacher, Latin lessons and not a colouring pencil in sight, school is nothing like he expected. And with a few unexpected visitors about to cause classroom chaos, this could be the stinkiest school day in history!

Daniel Farrand sits down with Brett Thorn, Keeper of Archaeology at Discover Bucks Museum, to explore their landmark exhibition, The Saxons.The discussion centers on two extraordinary early medieval burials: the 6th-century "Marlow Warlord"—a solitary, 6ft 4in warrior buried overlooking the Thames with an intact pattern-welded sword, broken spears, and continental bronze feasting cauldrons—and the 7th-century Taplow Princely Burial, Britain's richest pagan grave before the discovery of Sutton Hoo. ​Thorn explains how sentinel burials marked volatile river borders, how micro-foil waffle stamps gave garnet jewelry its luminous sparkle, and why delicate blown-glass cone beakers dismantle the myth of the crude "Dark Ages." ​Unlock our complete back-catalogue of 300+ episodes and the exclusive bonus Q&A covering the 144-grave Wendover cemetery on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicmythologypodcast | Handcrafted historical goods: https://www.hornsofodin.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In a few day's time the Bayeux Tapestry goes on show at the British Museum in London. The famous embroidery that depicts the Norman conquest of England has returned to the country where it was stitched for the first since it was made almost a thousand years ago.  It was created by defeated Anglo-Saxon women, commissioned by their Norman conquerors, and they stitched it to serve a very particular political purpose. We will never know their names but they made one of the most extraordinary works of art to survive from early medieval Europe. Down the centuries it has exerted a powerful hold over many imaginations: it was taken to Paris by Napoleon to rally his troops as he planned to invade Britain, and later eyed by Hitler for the same reason. But the Tapestry is much more than a beautiful object. It is a brilliant piece of communication and in this episode, with the help of Michael Lewis, Curator of the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum, we look at the labour behind it and the story it was designed to tell. For more information about this episode and pictures of the people and places mentioned in this episode please go to https://hapticandhue.com/tales-of-textiles-series-8/  And if you would like to find out about Friends of Haptic & Hue with an extra podcast every month hosted by Jo Andrews and Bill Taylor – here's the link: https://hapticandhue.com/join/  

Historian Joseph Kelly argues that the roots of American fascism reach much further back than Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy. They can be found in the antebellum South and the political system built to defend slavery and racial hierarchy.Kelly, author of The Biggest Lie: The Prehistory of American Fascism, 1818 - 1915, traces how the promise that “all men are created equal” collided with a growing ideology that insisted inequality was natural. We discuss Thomas Jefferson, the Denmark Vesey conspiracy, Nat Turner, pseudoscientific racism, Samuel George Morton, Jim Crow, and the use of fear and political violence to protect white power.Kelly also explains Robert Paxton's definition of fascism, why January 6 changed Paxton's view of Donald Trump, and how election denial can function as a test of political loyalty. The conversation ends with the institutions Kelly believes still protect American democracy, including a free press, independent courts, academic freedom, and organizations committed to defending civil rights.BOOKBook: The Biggest Lie: The Prehistory of American Fascism, 1818 - 1915https://bookshop.org/a/112456/9781639732111GUEST BIOJoseph Kelly is a historian and professor of literature and history at the College of Charleston. His work examines American democracy and the historical struggle between egalitarian ideals and systems of racial and political hierarchy. His latest book, The Biggest Lie: The Prehistory of American Fascism, 1818 - 1915, traces the development of American fascist politics from the antebellum South through Jim Crow and the rise of Anglo-Saxon nationalism. He is also the author of Marooned and America's Longest Siege.

The collapse of Roman rule in Britain, followed by the emergence of kingdoms established by Germanic tribes, marks one of the most turbulent periods in Britain's history. But what factors drove this dramatic transformation? This Long Read written by Nick Higham chronicles the rise of the Anglo-Saxons. Today's feature originally appeared in the July 2026 issue of HistoryExtra magazine, and has been voiced in partnership with the RNIB. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The inevitable has occurred, dear listener, so pay up your Eye Money as Death Week has arrived on Three Ravens, riding a pale horse...The final part of our month-long celebration of the Cycles of Life, on this episode we're chatting through the history and folklore of that undiscovered country where all dreams may come - and from which the ancestors might return if we're not careful!We start at the end of the last Ice Age, with humankind surviving in cave systems, engaging in ritual cannibalism and secondary burial rites, then move forward chronologically through the Stone Ages to explore how pre-literate societies embraced sky burials, megalithic portals and community bone hordes to create rituals which linked the end of life with the natural world and the safe functioning of the cosmos.Then, from Ancient Mesopotamian Dying Chairs and the Egyptian Book of the Dead via Ancient Greek and Roman funerary rites, including Defixio tablets to pass messages to the Underworld, we proceed through to the dawn of Anglo Saxon pagan magic and pre-Christian concepts of the hereafter.From radical Medieval shifts towards nakedness in death and circuitous Lych Ways to post-Reformation practices like Telling The Bees and Sin Eating, we hope you find it a reassuring and inspiring listen which places passing on in context.Because it isn't an end - it's the start of something new, like an Ouroboros biting its own tail - with Three Ravens Series 8 launching a week today.Though with several historical spells to help guide us through the dark, and protect us from pesky ghosts, let us journey together into the Twilight Realm feet first, as there's no going back, which is no bad thing!About Three Ravens

L'été qui s'achève a une nouvelle fois été marqué par de tristes records climatiques. En premier lieu les incendies, d'une ampleur sans précédent dans certaines régions de France et d'Europe. Ils ont succédé à des canicules inédites par leur niveau et leur précocité. Deuil climatique ou « ecological grief » chez les Anglo-Saxons : le concept monte en puissance. Faut-il accepter qu'il y ait un avant et un après changement climatique ? Retrouvera-t-on un jour la nature de notre enfance ? Pour en débattre  Françoise Vimeux, climatologue et directrice de recherche à l'Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) Dominique Bourg, philosophe, professeur honoraire de l'université de Lausanne, auteur de nombreux livres, entre autres Dévastation, la question du mal aujourd'hui  aux éditions Puf Hélène Jalin, docteure en psychologie, spécialiste de l'éco-anxiété et des éco-émotions, représentante du Réseau des Professionnels de l'Accompagnement Face à l'Urgence Ecologique (RAFUE).

L'été qui s'achève a une nouvelle fois été marqué par de tristes records climatiques. En premier lieu les incendies, d'une ampleur sans précédent dans certaines régions de France et d'Europe. Ils ont succédé à des canicules inédites par leur niveau et leur précocité. Deuil climatique ou « ecological grief » chez les Anglo-Saxons : le concept monte en puissance. Faut-il accepter qu'il y ait un avant et un après changement climatique ? Retrouvera-t-on un jour la nature de notre enfance ? Pour en débattre  Françoise Vimeux, climatologue et directrice de recherche à l'Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) Dominique Bourg, philosophe, professeur honoraire de l'université de Lausanne, auteur de nombreux livres, entre autres Dévastation, la question du mal aujourd'hui  aux éditions Puf Hélène Jalin, docteure en psychologie, spécialiste de l'éco-anxiété et des éco-émotions, représentante du Réseau des Professionnels de l'Accompagnement Face à l'Urgence Ecologique (RAFUE).

fWotD Episode 3398: Brochfael ap Meurig Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles.The featured article for Monday, 24 August 2026, is Brochfael ap Meurig.Brochfael ap Meurig (ruled c. 872 – c. 910) was king of Gwent in south-east Wales. He ruled jointly with his brother, Ffernfael ap Meurig. Gwent and Glywysing, the neighbouring territory to the west, were ruled as a single kingdom in some periods; at other times they were separate and the king of Glywysing had the higher status. Brochfael's father, Meurig ab Arthfael, ruled both territories with the title King of Glywysing, but Brochfael and Ffernfael were only kings of Gwent, and had a lower status than their cousin Hywel ap Rhys, King of Glywysing.The Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia claimed dominion over most of Wales, but in the late 880s Brochfael, Ffernfael and Hywel submitted voluntarily to Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, in order to gain protection from the oppression of Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians. A number of Brochfael's charters survive, mainly grants to Bishop Cyfeilliog and settlements of Brochfael's disputes with the bishop. Brochfael was the last of his line and was succeeded by Hywel's son, Owain ap Hywel.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:25 UTC on Monday, 24 August 2026.For the full current version of the article, see Brochfael ap Meurig on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm long-form Ruth.

What if you were proclaimed King of England but never sat on the throne? In 1066, Edgar Ætheling possessed the strongest bloodline claim to the English crown, yet this Anglo-Saxon prince became a mere footnote in history.Matt Lewis and Professor Levi Roach bring this forgotten heir out of the shadows. Discover his extraordinary seventy-year life of rebellions, Norman resistance, and Crusade exploits.MOREEdward the ConfessorListen on AppleListen on SpotifyThe Queer Court of William RufusListen on AppleListen on SpotifyGone Medieval is presented by Matt Lewis. Audio editor is Amy Haddow, the senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.All music used is courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.Gone Medieval is a History Hit podcastHistory Hit is part of Little Dot Studios, a Certified B Corp™Watch Matt and Eleanor's new documentary The Rise of the Plantagenets by subscribing to History Hit. Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week, PLUS early access ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aconitum, referred to as ‘aconite', is part of the Ranunculaceae family, or the buttercup family.  The Aconitum genus contains around 100 species, each of which is poisonous. Records of its use date back 3000 years.  The Anglo-Saxons apparently called it ‘thung', which meant 'poison plant'. The plant also gained the nicknames 'helmet flower', 'friarscap', 'old wife's hood' and 'granny's nightcap'. Given how horrifically poisonous the plant is, it has few medicinal or even magical uses. Yet it still appears in folklore and legend, so let's explore some of the tales of aconite in this week's episode of Fabulous Folklore! Find the images and sources used on the associated blog post: https://www.icysedgwick.com/aconite-folklore/ Get your free guide to home protection the folklore way here: https://www.icysedgwick.com/fab-folklore/ Become a member of the Fabulous Folklore Family for bonus episodes and articles at https://patreon.com/bePatron?u=2380595 Get weekly articles and bonus content at Substack: https://fabulousfolklore.substack.com/ Buy Icy a coffee or sign up for bonus episodes at: https://ko-fi.com/icysedgwick Find the Fabulous Folklore Bookshop, Icy's social media links, and other useful bits at: https://icysedgwick.com/start-here

Jonathan Drake closes out chapter two of Spooner's Science of Justice, wrapping sections six through eight in one sitting. He builds the case that if justice is natural, it has to be immutable and universal, the same standard for everyone, everywhere, whether we are talking about ancient Rome or your neighborhood today. Expect a memorable analogy about contractors using different measuring systems to build a house, a candid take on why the Anglo Saxon era's civil wars were actually a sign of a healthy system rather than a broken one, and some sharp commentary on why a government without a fixed moral compass is free to rewrite its own rules whenever convenient. Jon also touches on Bitcoin as a defensive tool consistent with natural law, and shares a very relatable Amazon return story. Stick around for smoked meat talk, sponsor shoutouts, and a preview of chapter three's history lesson on how despotism became the norm.

Did Harold Godwinson really force-march his army 190 miles to Hastings — or is that just Victorian storytelling? Matthew Harffy and Justin Hill are joined by Professor Tom Licence (University of East Anglia), whose new biography Harold: Warrior King is out 11 August 2026.Tom walks us through the source-by-source detective work that made international news: why the "forced march" from Stamford Bridge doesn't hold up under the Latin, and why the evidence instead points to Harold's army moving by sea. We dig into what the Bayeux Tapestry actually says versus what its images imply, why the Victorians reshaped 1066 into a national origin myth, and why Harold — illegitimate, Anglo-Danish, and a first-generation product of Cnut's conquest — deserves recognition as a genuine military strategist rather than the doomed, headstrong king of legend.Plus: news on Matthew's forthcoming Roman novel, Justin's new novel Bjorn the Fell-Handed, and a Patreon Odyssey bonus episode discount.Get 80% off all Rock, Paper, Swords! Patreon tiers in August with code 80AUGUST26: https://www.patreon.com/RockPaperSwordsPodcastKeywords: 1066, Battle of Hastings, Harold Godwinson, Anglo-Saxon history, Norman Conquest, Bayeux Tapestry, medieval history podcast, historical fiction podcast

Join The Man of the West for real Anglo-Saxon governance, a forest-word that forgot its own meaning, and a Philology Faire rerun on why Tolkien chose French over ‘Horse-thain.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

تمدن غرب چهار ستون داره: فلسفه‌ یونانی و قانون رومی و مسیحیت و بعد هم نهادهای دوره مدرن که جاهایی مثل لندن و پاریس و نیویورک درست شدن. اما انگار یه ستون پنجمی هست که کمتر شناخته شده کمتر ازش حرف می زنن ولی اثرش روی فرهنگ غربی کمتر از اون چهار تا نبوده. این ویدیو درباره‌ی این ستون پنجم غربه: فرهنگ وایکینگها. متن: بهجت بندری، علی بندری، با راهنمایی آرشام رئیسی‌نژاد | ویدیو و صدا: نیما خالدی‌کیابرای دیدن ویدیوی این اپیزود اگر ایران هستید وی‌پی‌ان بزنید و روی لینک زیر کلیک کنیدیوتیوب بی‌پلاسکانال تلگرام بی‌پلاسمنابع و عنوان‌هایی برای کنجکاوی بیشترWhat Really Caused the Viking Age? The social content of raiding and explorationThe Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea EmpireCivilization #35: The Viking LegacyVarangian Guard: Dark Age Byzantium's Special Forces | Ancient Black Opshttps://donya-e-eqtesad.com/%D8%A8%D8%AE%D8%B4-%DA%AF%D9%81%D8%AA-%DA%AF%D9%88-34/3846103-%D8%AC%D8%B9%D8%A8%D9%87-%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%87-%D8%AC%D9%86%DA%AF-%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%86History Documentary - The Vikings Who Were They BBC Documentary, Discovery ChannelThe Rise and Fall of Vikings: Attack on Lindisfarne (Full Episode) | National GeographicHistory of the Scandinavian Kingdoms1000 AD: A Tour of the Viking World // Vikings DocumentaryCivilization #36: Memory of the NorseHarald Hardrada: The Last VikingThe Viking Warriors of Rome: Harald Hardrada (Episode 2)The Brutal Battle of Hastings (1066 Episode 3)22. Vikings / The European Prospect, 1000تجارب الأمم، ابن مسکویه، احمد بن محمد، تهران, توس، ۱۳۷۶ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“THE ANGLO-SAXON ERA IS BEING CANCELLEDHave we finally lost our minds? It seems that in the ivory towers of our ‘elite' universities, history is no longer about facts, evidence, or heritage. It's about how much of our past we can erase to avoid hurting feelings.I'm talking about the systematic, bizarre, and frankly insulting campaign to scrub the term ‘Anglo-Saxon' from our curriculum. Yes, you heard that right. Over a thousand years of English foundation, the very bedrock of our language, law, and identity being rebranded, sanitised, and pushed into the memory hole because some academics think it sounds a bit too... ‘white.'Today, we're looking at the institutional madness taking over Nottingham and Cambridge, and why they're desperate to convince you that your own history is just a ‘myth.'"

Send us Fan MailIn this episode… What's in a name? Tom Cadwallender's delving into the wonderful world of local bird names, throssels, howlets and all. Steve Lowe brings us news of exciting Anglo-Saxon discoveries at an archaeology dig. And, we're out and about with Tom Pattinson in the summertime garden.Plus some top tips for the garden from Tom P.Support the showYou can follow Tom Pattinson, Steve and Tom Cadwallender and our wonderful guests and featured flowers, birds and projects on X via: @gardenersradio @TheNatureGarden and on Facebook: The Nature Garden. And you can also tune in to our monthly live radio show on Saturdays at 11am on www.lionheartradio.com Or email us: gardenersradio@outlook.comThank you for your support!Music link: Gaia by Carl Cape Band on Amazon Music - Amazon.co.uk

The battle that built Arthur's legend may never have matteredWas the Battle of Badon really the decisive moment that saved Britain from the Anglo-Saxons — or has history given it far more importance than it deserves?In this episode of History Rage, host Paul Bavill is joined by leading early medieval historian Professor Nick Higham to challenge one of the most persistent myths in British history. The popular narrative tells us that Badon was a crushing British victory that halted Anglo-Saxon expansion for generations — often linked to the legendary figure of King Arthur. But when you dig into the sources, archaeology, and timeline, that story begins to unravel.Drawing on early texts, including the writings of Gildas, Professor Higham explains how the earliest reference to Badon describes a siege rather than a dramatic battlefield clash. More importantly, the event seems to have been used mainly as a chronological marker rather than as evidence of a decisive national victory. Later writers transformed this brief reference into a heroic turning point, laying the foundations for the Arthurian tradition that still shapes popular history today.This episode explores how archaeology challenges the idea of a long pause in Anglo-Saxon expansion after Badon. Instead of retreat, the material record shows continued settlement growth and cultural spread across southern Britain. Rather than one defining battle, the fall of Roman Britain and rise of Anglo-Saxon England appears to have been a long, complex transition shaped by migration, shifting power, and cultural change.If you enjoy myth-busting history and want to understand how legends are created — and why they endure — this episode delivers a powerful rethink of one of Britain's most famous early medieval events.About the Guest — Professor Nick HighamProfessor Nick Higham is Emeritus Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Manchester and one of the UK's leading experts on the transition from Roman Britain to Anglo-Saxon England. His research focuses on the origins of England, early medieval warfare, and the development of historical traditions.Buy the Book Featured in This Episode:How England Began: From Roman Britain to the Anglo-SaxonsSupport the podcast and the author by purchasing here:https://uk.bookshop.org/a/10120/9780300254921Find out more about Professor Nick Higham's work through his academic publications and public history contributions. Explore More History Rage EpisodesIf you enjoyed this episode, you may also like:Episode 201 — The Anglo-Saxons Were No Better Than the VikingsEpisode 148 — Vikings Are Not Just Mass SlaughterersThese episodes expand on the realities behind popular myths about early medieval Britain.Follow and Contact History RageGot a historical myth you'd like to see challenged? Get in touch:

In this episode of the Anglotopia Podcast, Jonathan Thomas sits down with Jeremy Harte — folklorist, winner of the Catherine Briggs Folklore Award, curator of Bourne Hall Museum in Surrey, and author of Cloven Country: The Devil in the English Landscape and Travelers Through Time: A Gypsy History — to discuss his remarkable new book Treasures on Earth: Buried Wealth in the English Landscape, published by Reaktion Books. Jeremy has spent his career chasing the uncanny side of the English landscape, and in this book he has gathered hundreds of treasure legends together for the first time — organizing them not by region or date but by emotion: memory, ruin, strife, terror, failure, and longing. The result is one of the most original and quietly brilliant books on English folklore in years, and the conversation it generates is irresistible: Why did people surround buried gold with dragons, black hens, and demons? What does the moment a laborer on the River Ribble accidentally uncovered a Viking army's war chest have in common with Oak Island? Why is the folklore always cruelest at the very last minute? What is the real fantasy underneath the search for treasure — not gold, but escape, freedom, and the dream of never having to work again? And what does the figure of Mackenzie Crook's Detectorists, swinging their machines over Essex fields and dreaming of Saxon gold, tell us about the ancient human urge that these legends have always mapped? Links Treasures on Earth by Jeremy Harte (Reaktion Books) Cloven Country: The Devil in the English Landscape by Jeremy Harte Travelers Through Time: A Gypsy History by Jeremy Harte Bourne Hall Museum, Ewell, Surrey The Cuerdale Hoard The Rillaton Cup Detectorists — Mackenzie Crook (BBC/AcornTV) Friends of Anglotopia Club Takeaways Treasure legends are not really about gold. They are, as Jeremy Harte argues throughout, about the emotions that surround gold — longing, memory, failure, terror, and the fantasy of transformation. The stories survived because of what they did to the people who told and heard them, not because of any actual buried wealth. The Cuerdale Hoard — the largest Viking silver hoard ever found in Britain, unearthed by laborers straightening the River Ribble in the 1840s — is one of the most powerful examples of how real treasure finds retrospectively generate legends. Almost all treasure "traditions" that seem to predict a find are only recorded after the find is made. The classic Anglo-Saxon image of the dragon sitting on a barrow of gold — doing nothing but guarding it forever, sacrificing whatever life a dragon might have — is, Jeremy argues, an early cultural articulation of what happens when treasure takes over a human life. The same psychology drives Oak Island today. Treasure guardians shift with the centuries — dragons and giants give way to fairies, then to demons, then to ghosts — not randomly but in response to what each era finds believable. A legend must sit in the zone between "obviously true" and "obviously made up" to function: too real and it's history, too fantastic and it's a fairy tale. The dissolution of the monasteries did not immediately generate treasure legends. It took fifty to a hundred years for the trauma to work its way into folklore — appearing in ghost monks, ruined abbey atmosphere, and stories of gold thrown into ponds or bricked up in tunnels. Society, like individuals, needs time to process collective shock before it becomes story. Mary Parrish, a "brandy-loving London cunning woman," and Goodwin Wharton, the gullible aristocrat she led on a years-long quest for fairy gold — documented entirely from Wharton's own obsessive diary — are perhaps the most human pair in the book. Wharton was simultaneously a reasonably successful MP, raised money from syndicates, and organized diving bells off the Scottish coast for Armada treasure. Jeremy describes their relationship as "a con, but also a love story." The folk cruelty of treasure legends — the fortune always snatched away by one tiny mistake, a single word spoken, one black hair on a white ox — is not random. These stories circulated among communities who had not done well for themselves. The unkindness of fate felt true to their experience. The treasure was always just out of reach because that was always true. The real fantasy of treasure, Jeremy argues, is not wealth but escape — to become a gentleman, meaning someone visibly unencumbered by the need to work. The problem for many of the poor communities generating these legends was that even if they found a single coin, they could not spend it without someone asking where it came from. Less than 10% of records are digital — a parallel to archaeology, where the vast majority of objects are still in the ground. Metal detectorists and archaeologists have more in common than either entirely admits: both are animated by the same desire to find something and to validate themselves through the finding. The difference is in what they're willing to record and share. The book closes with the gardener at Wallingford who dug for buried treasure in his spare time until one day they found a fresh hole, his spade and gloves beside it, and the man himself was never seen again. Jeremy chose this image deliberately: "It was almost like, if I'd been giving a talk, it would have been time for me to wave bye-bye and disappear behind a curtain." Soundbites "Treasure is so potent it doesn't have to exist to destabilize human life. Most of the hordes in the book will never be found because they were never there." — Jeremy on the central argument of the book. "You find an Iron Age gold coin and it was — if it had been anything else, it would have been archaeology. It was the gold that made that different emotive feeling. And I thought I ought to be exploring that a bit." — Jeremy on the moment in the dried-out lake that started it all. "Think about the Anglo-Saxon dragon. He does nothing but guard gold, and sacrifices whatever a dragon life would be to just sit there forever in the darkness on the treasure. I thought, yeah, there is a common theme here." — Jeremy on why Oak Island and the dragon barrow are the same story. "It has to be the kind of thing you can announce in the pub and there will be a lively discussion with people banging down their pints and going, well bits of it could be true. It has to sit in that zone — too real and it's just history, too fantastic and it's a fairy tale." — Jeremy on what makes a legend work. "Mary Parrish — we have an entirely one-sided record. Goodwin Wharton was the literary half of the partnership. He even organized diving bells to try to dig up the treasure of the Armada off the coast of Scotland. And at the same time he is a fairly successful MP making his way up in government. Leading me to wonder what secrets might possibly lie in the diaries of some of our present members." — Jeremy on the Mary Parrish and Goodwin Wharton story. "People telling stories about lost treasure — the poorer the community, the more likely they are to be doing it. There's a sense of the unkindness of fate. People who had mastered fate and done quite well for themselves were sitting in the other corner and not contacting the gentleman with the story." — Jeremy on why treasure legends cluster around poverty. "The dissolution of the monasteries is recorded historically, basically day by day. What happened to the stuff is pretty well recorded. But it's not until well into the seventeenth century that you get the tropes of the monastic ghost, the buried treasures, the ghost monks. It took fifty to a hundred years for the trauma to work its way into folklore." — Jeremy on how collective trauma becomes legend. "The fantasy is to become a gentleman. Gentlemen are conspicuously visible in the countryside as people who wander around having no apparent need to work at anything whatsoever. Which of course is why they can go around collecting folk tales." — Jeremy on the real dream underneath treasure hunting. "When I actually go on site, my skepticism rolls away after about five miles walking. And I'm like, ooh, let's just have a quick look underneath here. There's a patch of dirt here. Let's just check. And I thought it'd be terribly embarrassing if I did actually find a hoard of gold. It's like — yeah, publicity exercise." — Jeremy's most English answer to whether he believes any treasure is really out there. "He'd disappeared and it was almost like, if I'd been giving a talk, it would have been time for me to wave bye-bye and disappear behind a curtain and go out the back." — Jeremy on why he ended the book with the vanishing gardener of Wallingford. Chapters 00:21 Introduction — Jonathan sets the scene and introduces Jeremy Harte and Treasures on Earth 01:51 How Jeremy Came to Folklore — Thirty-five years at Bourne Hall Museum and the Iron Age gold coin that arrived in a little package 03:17 From the Devil to Buried Treasure — The Hampstead Heath lockdown walk that crystallized the book 05:11 Treasure Is So Potent It Doesn't Have to Exist — The central argument of the book 06:17 Organizing by Emotion — Why memory, ruin, strife, terror, and failure work better than region or date 08:33 Real Treasures and the Legends They Generated — The Cuerdale Hoard, the Rillaton Cup, and George V's toothbrush 10:19 Memory Doing Something Creative After the Fact — Why traditions almost always appear after the find 12:28 Comedy in Folklore — The shepherd who wrings every cockerel's neck and how humor functions in local legend 13:56 Dragons, Demons, and Elaborate Spells — Why the imagination surrounds gold with monsters 16:04 The Little Black Hen — Humble, absurd, and utterly unbeatable guardians 17:17 Fairies and Treasure — Tricked out of it again and again, stones restored overnight, the ground healed over 18:33 The Cast Changes Over the Centuries — Dragons, giants, fairies, demons, ghosts, and what the turnover tells us about belief 20:52 Historical Trauma and Treasure Lore — The dissolution of the monasteries and the fifty-year delay before it became folklore 23:17 Ghost Money — White ladies, restless spirits, and the gold that keeps the dead from resting 24:42 The Failure Chapter — One tiny mistake, a single word, a curse, a black hair on a white ox's back 25:45 Curses as Insurance Policies — The Worwell horde, the rector who applied to the Home Office, and why curses are rarer than fatal obstacles 27:37 Who Were the Real Treasure Seekers? — Magical syndicates, single obsessives, and the communities that generated these stories 29:05 Mary Parrish and Goodwin Wharton — A con, a love story, a diving bell off the Scottish coast, and an MP's extraordinary diary 31:14 The Village Talking, Not the Diggers — Why most stories survive through gossip, not testimony 32:44 Prophetic Treasure — Golden stags and civic generosity vs. London greed 35:19 The Real Fantasy — Not gold, but escape; not wealth, but becoming a gentleman 36:09 The Gardener of Wallingford — A spade, a glove, an empty hole, and the perfect last image 36:56 Metal Detectorists as Heirs to the Tradition — The same longing, the same self-validation, new technology 39:16 Detectorists — Mackenzie Crook, Andy and Lance, and why the yearning matters more than the find 40:36 "The Real Treasure Is the Friends You Make Along the Way" — And the ones you lose when the magic goes wrong 41:16 Magicians Who Moved On — The two kinds of cunning folk and how charisma covers an inability to find gold 41:17 Final Question — Jeremy's favorite story, and whether he believes any of the treasure is really out there 43:34 Wrap-Up — Treasures on Earth from Reaktion Books, links in show notes Video Version

King Starbringer and Yoba learn of a messy new situation in lower city. Sophrosyne hatches an ambitious plan to get the support Astreus needs at the last minute. Chartrulean grapples with the revelation that Sophrosyne might be more than she seems, and what her dream visions might mean for him. This episode features an excerpt "The Wanderer" by an unknown Anglo-Saxon soldier. The poem "The Kiss of The Unmaker" was written by Aud Andrews and adapted for the story by H.M. Radcliff. Content warning: mental health episodes Get ad-free listening on Patreon Go ⁠⁠behind the scenes Transcripts Aud Andrews as Chartrulean Kathleen Klein as Sophrosyne Christian Collado as Havelion Nina Nikolic as Borsha Reginald West as Admiral Lapadine Angela Hochman as Cythaelia Magnus Carlssen as King Starbringer Adam Neill as Yoba Danielle Yonkers as Imsep Stacey Lightman as Shan Adrian Galley as Maldoro Rae Witte as Dr. Cullaway Heath Martin as Captain Aldibad Elizabeth Plant as Rankusha Al Foote III as Mystery Narrator // Written and produced by H.M. Radcliff With production assistance from Rae Witte Original score by Sean Renner, performed by Sean Renner and the Invoke String Quartet Edited by Will Fox Sound Design by Will Fox and H.M. Radcliff Mix by Edward Calvey and H.M. Radcliff Casting by Julie Cunningham and Aud Andrews /// Listen to the original soundtrack by Sean Renner Follow us on Instagram The Madness of Chartrulean is a part of the Fable and Folly Network. Find and support our sponsors at: fableandfolly.com/partners Chartrulean™ is the property of Packhowl Media © 2026, all rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

King Starbringer and Yoba learn of a messy new situation in lower city. Sophrosyne hatches an ambitious plan to get the support Astreus needs at the last minute. Chartrulean grapples with the revelation that Sophrosyne might be more than she seems, and what her dream visions might mean for him. This episode features an excerpt "The Wanderer" by an unknown Anglo-Saxon soldier. The poem "The Kiss of The Unmaker" was written by Aud Andrews and adapted for the story by H.M. Radcliff. Content warning: mental health episodes ⁠Get ad-free listening on Patreon⁠ ⁠Go ⁠⁠behind the scenes⁠ ⁠Transcripts⁠ Aud Andrews as Chartrulean Kathleen Klein as Sophrosyne Christian Collado as Havelion Nina Nikolic as Borsha Reginald West as Admiral Lapadine Angela Hochman as Cythaelia Magnus Carlssen as King Starbringer Adam Neill as Yoba Danielle Yonkers as Imsep Stacey Lightman as Shan Adrian Galley as Maldoro Rae Witte as Dr. Cullaway Heath Martin as Captain Aldibad Elizabeth Plant as Rankusha Al Foote III as Mystery Narrator // Written and produced by H.M. Radcliff With production assistance from Rae Witte Original score by Sean Renner, performed by Sean Renner and the Invoke String Quartet Edited by Will Fox Sound Design by Will Fox and H.M. Radcliff Mix by Edward Calvey and H.M. Radcliff Casting by Julie Cunningham and Aud Andrews /// ⁠Listen to the original soundtrack by Sean Renner⁠ ⁠Follow us on Instagram⁠ The Madness of Chartrulean is a part of the Fable and Folly Network. Find and support our sponsors at:⁠ fableandfolly.com/partners⁠ Chartrulean™ is the property of⁠ Packhowl Media⁠ © 2026, all rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everywhere Rome fell, civilization transformed. In Britain, it stopped.That's not a myth. That's what actually happened. Everywhere else the empire fell — Gaul, Hispania, Italy, North Africa — the barbarian successor kingdoms absorbed Roman administration and kept the machine running. The Franks kept Roman law. The Visigoths kept the Christian church. The Ostrogoths kept the Senate and the aqueducts. Even the Vandals in North Africa kept Roman urban life going.In Britain, none of that happened. The Roman garrisons pulled out in 407. The emperor told the Britons to defend themselves in 410. And when the Anglo-Saxons arrived, they didn't do what every other post-Roman successor group did. They didn't inherit. They built wooden halls next to abandoned Roman villas and let the villas fall down. Latin didn't evolve into a Romance language the way it did in Gaul and Hispania — it just vanished. Christianity didn't survive the transition — Pope Gregory the Great had to send Augustine of Canterbury in 597 to start over from pagan ground. Cities didn't get built on top of the old Roman ones — they got built somewhere else while Colchester sat empty for centuries.This is Episode 4 of the "Life After the Fall of Rome" series. Britain is the comparison case for the whole thesis. Everywhere else Rome fell, it transformed. Britain is the exception that proves the rule — the one place where the Hollywood version of the fall (villas abandoned, libraries lost, languages disappeared, lights actually going out) turned out to be true. And the reason it happened is quieter and more dangerous than any invasion narrative: successors who chose not to inherit.The barbarians didn't destroy Roman Britain. Roman Britain was already failing on its own. What the Anglo-Saxons did was build something entirely different on top of it — a new culture with no interest in preserving what came before. That indifference, more than any battle, is what real collapse actually looks like.If you're new to the series, start with Episode 1 ("Rome Didn't Fall — Here's What Actually Happened") linked below.

Nova Anglia, or “New England,” is a medieval tradition about Anglo Saxon exiles who left England after the Norman Conquest and founded a new homeland in the east, placed near the Black Sea or in Crimea. The story survives in later historical references and modern retellings, but it is generally treated as an evidenced episode.The basic idea is that some displaced Anglo Saxon nobles and warriors, rather than accepting Norman rule, carried their identity, customs, and perhaps their loyalty to an English political order into foreign lands. In that sense, Nova Anglia functions as both a migration story and a memory of lost sovereignty: Englishmen building an “England” elsewhere after their own had been conquered.What makes the tale interesting is that it sits at the edge of history and legend. Some accounts describe the settlers as creating a community with English names and institutions, So the story is best understood as a medieval exile narrative with a possible historical core.It also fits a wider medieval pattern: defeated elites sometimes imagined or attempted new beginnings in distant places, especially where there was room to settle and a political vacuum to exploit. Nova Anglia therefore matters not only as a curiosity, but as a window into how the Anglo Saxons may have understood loss, identity, and survival after 1066.

England is full of history… but so much has been forgotten. In this video I sit down with Jack from Past and Curious to uncover the stories that have faded from time. We talk sin eating, the first English fairy story, the pagan texts of the Anglo Saxons... all the way to a fascinating conspiracy Jack may have uncovered related to Gawain and the Green Knight. It's all here!* I recommend watching the accompanying video as oppose to just listening, as I have included helpful details and visuals to bring the conversation to life *

Send us Fan MailA welcome breeze plays among the reeds and carves ripples on the canal. Tonight, the Erica is moored on a perfect summer's night. We welcome you to join us as enjoy the quiet and go searching for older attitudes to summer, the shifting dates of Midsummer's Eve, and just why Midsummer Night's Dream was so unsummery.  Journal entry:10th July, Friday“Sitting chatting over a mug of tea On the stern of the boat The sound of music and children playing A swirl of energy at the end of day.Voices float across the water That dances with light. A mother with six newly hatched ducklings The sun sinks behind Horse Hill.”Episode Information:In this episode I read short extracts from Miles Hadfield's (1950) An English Almanac published by Dent, and Alexandra Harris' (2015) Weatherland: Writers and artists under English skies published by Thames and Hudson. I also refer to Hana Videen's (2022) The Word Hord: Daily life in old English published by Princeton University Press, Eleanor Parker's (2022) Winters in the World: A journey through the Anglo-Saxon year published by Reaktion Books, and Lia Leendertz's (2024) A Year in Story and Song: A celebration of the seasons published by Hatchette UK.  You can find Karen and Jason's YouTube channel here: Just Two People. With special thanks to our lock-wheelersfor supporting this podcast. Ana McKellar Susan BakerMind Shambles Clare Hollingsworth Kevin B. Fleur and David Mcloughlin Lois Raphael Tania Yorgey Andrea Hansen Chris Hinds Chris and Alan on NB Land of Green Ginger Captain Arlo Rebecca Russell Allison on the narrowboat Mukka Derek and Pauline Watts Anna V. Orange Cookie Mary Keane. Tony Rutherford. Arabella Holzapfel. Rory with MJ and Kayla. Narrowboat Precious Jet. Linda Reynolds Burkins. Richard Noble. Carol Ferguson. Tracie Thomas Mark and Tricia Stowe Madeleine SmithGeneral DetailsThe intro and the outro music is ‘Crying Cello' by Oleksii_Kalyna (2024) licensed for free-use by Pixabay (189988). Narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.All other audio recorded on site. Support the showBecome a 'Lock-Wheeler'Would you like to support this podcast by becoming a 'lock-wheeler' for Nighttime on Still Waters? Find out more: 'Lock-wheeling' for Nighttime on Still Waters.ContactFacebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/noswpod.bsky.socialMastodon: https://mastodon.world/@nosw  I would love to hear from you. You can email me at nighttimeonstillwaters@gmail.com or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message by clicking on the microphone icon. For more information about Nighttime on Still WatersYou can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com. 

In this episode, Steve Guerra and Patrick Young return from the English exile communities abroad to look at what happened to those who remained in England after 1066. They explore the persecution of native clergy, the forced replacement of the Anglo-Saxon church order, and the remarkable protest of the Anonymous of York, who saw England standing at a crossroads as Rome and the Normans reshaped everything. This is the story of how an older English Christian world was not only conquered, but systematically erased.Subscribe to Forgotten Christianity on Substack: https://forgottenchristianity.substack.com/ #HistoryOfThePapacy #ForgottenChristianity #NormanConquest #AngloSaxonEngland #ChurchHistory #MedievalHistory #AnonymousOfYork #GregorianReform #ChristianHistory #EnglishHistory Let us know what you think about this episode in the comments section below! Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast on the links below and on YouTube!Support the show and listen:Patreon: http://patreon.com/historyofthepapacyBuy me a coffee! https://buymeacoffee.com/historyofthepapacyBuy me a book: http://bit.ly/40ckJ8EYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thehistoryofthepapacyEmail Us: steve@atozhistorypage.comHow to listen: https://www.atozhistorypage.com/podcastListen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7DelfggbL0Au4e3aUyWDaS Music Provided by:"Sonatina in C Minor" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)"Funeral March for Brass" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)"Crusade Heavy Perfect Loop" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Agnus Dei X - Bitter Suite Kevin MacLeaod (incomptech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today, we are diving deep into the Vita Ædwardi Regis, or The Life of King Edward who rests at Westminster. Written in Latin right on the knife-edge of the Norman Conquest of 1066, this text is not your standard medieval hagiography. It is a complex artefact of its time and an embodiment of how the Anglo-Saxons understood their defeat in 1066. Credits – Music: 'Wælheall' by Hrōðmund Wōdening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQfdqIyqJ4g&list=LL&index=5&ab_channel=Hr%C5%8D%C3%B0mundW%C5%8Ddening Social Media - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/anglosaxonengland Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Anglo-Saxon-England-Podcast-110529958048053 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anglosaxonenglandpodcast/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For this episode, we go where no podcast has gone before - welcome to Three Ravens Live @ Great Dunmow BookFest!During a one day festival where an entire Essex town famous for giving out sides of bacon to married couples turned itself into a bookshop, we were warmly welcomed to Jack's 1952, an outdoor goods shop who gave us a space in their basement and several dozen camping chairs to record a free 45 minute show. Our audience ranged from newborn children gurgling away up to retirees, along with hardened Three Ravens fans, and plenty of people who had never heard of us before!With regular interruptions from the beeping sounds of the shop's door being opened upstairs, and customers popping by to purchase hiking boots, we carried on regardless, with Eleanor joined by our friend and regular collaborator Katie Sommers to sing a capella versions of Three Ravens, Sumer is icumen in, and We Gets Up In The Morn.Between these musical highlights we dig into some of our favourite bits of Essex's folklore, including the ghostly goings-on at Borley Rectory and the legend of Old King Cole, the county's six distinct dragon tales, the Canvey Island Monster, Boudica's rampage, and the sad fate of Anglo Saxon queen Edith Swan-neck. Also including Eleanor's telling of the tale of the weather witch Sarah Moore of Leigh on Sea in the form of Three Knots, it's a slightly mad show, and hopefully an interesting listen!We really hope you enjoy the episode, and will speak to you again on Monday for the penultimate episode of our Bonus Series Magus, all about the magical life of 16th century occultist, scholar, and theologian Cornelius Agrippa!Three Ravens is an English myth and folklore podcast hosted by Eleanor Conlon and Martin Vaux.Released on Mondays, each weekly episode focuses on one of England or Wales' 39 historic counties, exploring the history, folklore and traditions of the area, from ghosts and mermaids to mythical monsters, half-forgotten heroes, bloody legends, and much, much more. Then, and most importantly, the pair take turns to tell a new version of a traditional story from that county - all before discussing what that tale might mean, where it might have come from, and the truths it reveals about England's hidden past...Bonus Episodes are released on Thursdays plus Local Legends episodes - interviews with acclaimed authors, folklorists, podcasters and historians with unique perspectives on that week's county - and Live Shows come out on Saturdays.With a range of exclusive content on Patreon too, including audio ghost tours, the Three Ravens Newsletter, and monthly Three Ravens Film Club episodes about folk horror films from across the decades, why not join us around the campfire and listen in?REGISTER FOR THE TALES OF SOUTHERN ENGLAND TOURVisit our website Join our Patreon Social media channels and sponsors Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After the Norman Conquest, many Anglo-Saxon nobles, clergy, and warriors refused to submit and instead chose exile, fleeing not just to Scotland and Scandinavia, but all the way to Constantinople and the Eastern Roman Empire. The episode explores the remarkable tradition of around 10,000 English exiles traveling by ship, receiving lands from the emperor, and helping form English communities far from home, even in places remembered as a kind of early “New England” on the Black Sea. Steve Guerra and Patrick Young also trace how these exiles entered imperial service through the Varangian Guard, showing that the fall of Anglo-Saxon England did not mean the end of its people, identity, or Christian inheritance. Subscribe to Forgotten Christianity on Substack: https://forgottenchristianity.substack.com/ #HistoryOfThePapacy #ForgottenChristianity #NormanConquest #AngloSaxonEngland #ChurchHistory #MedievalHistory #ByzantineHistory #VarangianGuard #Constantinople #ChristianHistory Let us know what you think about this episode in the comments section below! Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast on the links below and on YouTube!Support the show and listen: Patreon: http://patreon.com/historyofthepapacyBuy me a coffee! https://buymeacoffee.com/historyofthepapacyBuy me a book: http://bit.ly/40ckJ8E YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thehistoryofthepapacyEmail Us: steve@atozhistorypage.comHow to listen: https://www.atozhistorypage.com/podcastListen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7DelfggbL0Au4e3aUyWDaS Music Provided by:"Sonatina in C Minor" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)"Funeral March for Brass" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)"Crusade Heavy Perfect Loop" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Agnus Dei X - Bitter Suite Kevin MacLeaod (incomptech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The history of immigration in England is far older than many people realise. Immigration in Tudor England, medieval England and even Roman Britain helped shape the nation we know today. People often talk about immigration as though it is a modern issue, but England's history tells a very different story. In this video, we explore over a thousand years of migration to England, from the Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Normans to medieval Jewish communities, Flemish weavers, Italian bankers, Tudor refugees, African residents and Muslim diplomats. You'll discover how immigrants helped shape England's economy, culture and society, and how concerns about jobs, wages and foreign competition were being debated centuries ago. We'll examine events such as the York massacre of 1190, the anti-immigrant riots of Evil May Day in 1517, the arrival of Huguenot refugees, the story of John Blanke, Henry VIII's Black royal trumpeter, and England's diplomatic links with Morocco and the Ottoman Empire. History doesn't tell us what immigration policy should be today, but it can challenge assumptions about the past. Was England ever truly isolated? What does the historical evidence actually reveal? Let me know your thoughts in the comments.   #History #EnglishHistory #TudorHistory #MedievalHistory #BritishHistory #BlackTudors #ImmigrationHistory #HistoryDocumentary #HenryVIII #ElizabethI

In this episode, we are uplifting some of the ideas in Elspeth Hay's remarkable book,   Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food.  After starting with Sara Jolena offering a summary of some of the big ideas in the book, we move into a conversation with author Elspeth Hay and a few of the many people whom Elspeth has mentioned in the book: Ron Reed, Karuk tribal member and cultural biologist; Joanna Brooks, settler scholar and author of Why We Left; and Gale Pettifer, commoner and scholar of the New Forest in England. Together they trace a set of histories that turn out to be deeply entangled: Indigenous land dispossession in California, the enclosure of the English commons, the suppression of cultural burning, the erasure of ancestral foodways — and the folk songs, forest laws, and buried memories that survived all of it. Timestamps0:00  —  Welcome & introduction: Sara Jolena introduces the episode, inspired by Elspeth Hay's book Feed Us with Trees, and the “no farm, no food” myth it challenges.2:51  —  Guest introductions: Elspeth introduces Ron Reed (Karuk Nation, cultural biologist), Joanna Brooks (Why We Left), and Gale Pettifer (New Forest commoner and commons scholar).5:44  —  Ron Reed's opening story: childhood memories of harvesting acorns, mushrooms, and salmon; the Klamath Dam removal; and the ongoing fight to restore Indigenous fire practices with public trust objectives.9:20  —  Gale Pettifer on the New Forest: a thousand years of contested common rights, Norman forest law, and what it means to still practice ancient commoning in the 21st century.12:58  —  Joanna Brooks on settler scholarship and song: tracing her European ancestry through folk ballads, a grandmother's lullaby, and a plate of hazelnuts at the British Museum that the curators couldn't explain.18:29  —  Fire across continents: Elspeth connects her experience of gorse burning debates in the New Forest to Ron's work on cultural burning — the same argument, on opposite sides of the Atlantic.30:58  —  Dragons, sacred fire, and colonial memory: a discussion of how fire moved from sacred to feared in Anglo-Saxon and English tradition, illustrated by the New Forest dragon legend and the introduction of Christianity.34:31  —  Songs of grief and displacement: Joanna traces the emotional record of enclosure through English murder ballads — songs about hazel trees, beaver hats, and families starving off the land — and what they reveal about why colonial settlers “lost their minds.”43:12  —  Magna Carta, common law, and the 1877 New Forest Act: Gale traces how brutal Norman forest law paradoxically became the foundation of commoners' rights, and how public outcry saved the New Forest from privatization.47:33  —  The allotment parallel: Elspeth draws a striking connection between English allotment gardens and the U.S. federal allotment system used to break up Indigenous tribal lands — the same word, the same colonial logic, on both sides of the ocean.1:10:42  —  Cycles of colonization and reverse transmission: Sara Jolena traces how colonial practices — from plantation timekeeping to fire suppression — were exported back to Europe, and the importance of distinguishing imperial forces from common people's forces within every culture.1:16:11  —  Closing round: guests share what is shifting now — prescribed fire training in Wellfleet, MA; intergenerational transfer of fire ecology knowledge; the joy of reconnecting with the New Forest through free-roaming ponies — and an invitation to listeners to bring these ideas into their communities.Elspeth HayBook: Feed us with treesWebsiteBioInstaRon ReedArticle about Ron Reed - How Karuk ceremonial leader Ron Reed used Western science to take down the Klamath damsInterview featuring Ron - Fire is Food: A Virtual Brown Bag Discussion with Ron Reed and Kari NorgaardJoanna BrooksBook: Why We Left WebsiteBioLinkedinGale Pettifer LinkedinBioSend us a messageSupport the showLearn more about Sara Jolena Wolcott and Sequoia SamanvayaMusic Title: Both of UsMusic by: madiRFAN Don't forget to "like" and share this episode! 

History tells us England was conquered at Hastings.That's the cover story.What happened on October 14, 1066 was a single afternoon of fighting that ended with Harold Godwinson dead in the dirt and William the Conqueror in possession of a battlefield. But conquest is not what happens on a battlefield. It's what happens in the 20 years afterward.In those 20 years, roughly 10,000 Normans replaced the ruling class of an entire kingdom of 2 million people. The old aristocracy. The old church hierarchy. The old landowners. All of them gone — not gradually over centuries, but in a single generation. By 1086, only 8% of England was still in Anglo-Saxon hands. The Domesday Book documented the new order in 800 pages and 2 million words, in a single year of administrative work that has no parallel in pre-industrial European history.This isn't conspiracy. It isn't ideology. It's architecture — and the architecture the Normans installed underneath the battle became the blueprint every successful conquering elite has read since.In this conversation with David Mainayar of the @Empire-Builders podcast:→ Anglo-Saxon England in 1065: the most centralized, monetized state in northwestern Europe — and why three rulers genuinely believed they had a claim to it→ The three weeks in September and October 1066 that contained the most jam-packed military sequence in medieval history — Stamford Bridge, the forced march south, then Hastings→ The Harrying of the North (1069-1070): William's near-genocidal three-month campaign that depopulated up to 75% of the region and ended Anglo-Saxon resistance→ The 500 castles built by the end of William's reign — and why the castle-and-knight system was the actual mechanism of the conquest→ The Domesday Book: William's 800-page survey of England, what it actually documented, and why it tells you everything about how the Normans understood power→ The biggest misconception about 1066, according to David: William the Conqueror wasn't actually the first Norman king of EnglandSubscribe to Hidden Forces in History for civilizational autopsies of the empires, institutions, and patterns shaping the world we live in now.*Support David:*https://x.com/EmpiresPodhttps://www.youtube.com/@Empire-Buildershttps://lex-books.com/CHAPTERS:00:00 The Conquest That Wasn't a Battle01:46 Welcome and Why 1066 Matters02:47 Anglo-Saxon England Before the Conquest05:06 The Three Claimants to the Throne13:36 Stamford Bridge and the Forced March South19:13 Hastings: Myth vs Reality24:42 William's Position at Nightfall27:06 The Real Conquest: The 20 Years After35:05 How 10,000 Normans Replaced 5,000 Landholders38:04 The Harrying of the North40:11 Castles, Knights, and the Norman System44:16 The Domesday Book47:44 The Norman Legacy: Stone, Language, Law50:17 Was 1066 a True Regime Change?54:38 The Biggest Misconception About 10661:02:41 Same Playbook, Different Century

Come explore the Galloway Hoard with me, a Viking era treasure hoard found buried beneath a field in Galloway, Scotland back in 2014. Silver Viking arm bands, a rock crystal jar dating back to ancient Rome, a silver vessel from 4,000 miles away in present day Iran - these treasures hidden around the year 900 are incredible. But, upon closer inspection, they raise more questions than answers. Is this actually Viking treasure? Arm bands are very Viking. But then why do they have inscriptions on them written in Anglo-Saxon runes, a form of Old English? Why is there a Christian cross? Reference to a Bishop? And what does the mysterious inscription "DIS IS IIGNA F" mean? We'll uncover all of this and more to reveal a tumultuous time in an ever changing world. Support the show! Join the Patreon (patreon.com/historyfixpodcast)Buy some merchBuy Me a CoffeeVenmo @Shea-LaFountaineSources:National Museums Scotland "Discover the Galloway Hoard"Smithsonian Magazine "A Proposed Translation Hints at the Origins of the Mysterious Galloway Hoard"NorthLink Ferries "The Galloway Hoard - an interview with Martin Goldberg"Wikipedia "Galloway Hoard"Shoot me a message! Support the show

Full Text of Readings Memorial of Saint Boniface, Bishop and Martyr Lectionary: 357 The Saint of the day is Saint Boniface Saint Boniface's Story Boniface, known as the apostle of the Germans, was an English Benedictine monk who gave up being elected abbot to devote his life to the conversion of the Germanic tribes. Two characteristics stand out: his Christian orthodoxy and his fidelity to the pope of Rome. How absolutely necessary this orthodoxy and fidelity were is borne out by the conditions Saint Boniface found on his first missionary journey in 719 at the request of Pope Gregory II. Paganism was a way of life. What Christianity he did find had either lapsed into paganism or was mixed with error. The clergy were mainly responsible for these latter conditions since they were in many instances uneducated, lax and questionably obedient to their bishops. In particular instances their very ordinations were questionable. These are the conditions that Saint Boniface was to report in 722 on his first return visit to Rome. The Holy Father instructed him to reform the German Church. The pope sent letters of recommendation to religious and civil leaders. Boniface later admitted that his work would have been unsuccessful, from a human viewpoint, without a letter of safe-conduct from Charles Martel, the powerful Frankish ruler, grandfather of Charlemagne. Boniface was finally made a regional bishop and authorized to organize the whole German Church. He was eminently successful. In the Frankish kingdom, he met great problems because of lay interference in bishops' elections, the worldliness of the clergy and lack of papal control. During a final mission to the Frisians, Boniface and 53 companions were massacred while he was preparing converts for confirmation. In order to restore the Germanic Church to its fidelity to Rome and to convert the pagans, Saint Boniface had been guided by two principles. The first was to restore the obedience of the clergy to their bishops in union with the pope of Rome. The second was the establishment of many houses of prayer which took the form of Benedictine monasteries. A great number of Anglo-Saxon monks and nuns followed him to the continent, where he introduced the Benedictine nuns to the active apostolate of education. Reflection Saint Boniface bears out the Christian rule: To follow Christ is to follow the way of the cross. For Boniface, it was not only physical suffering or death, but the painful, thankless, bewildering task of Church reform. Missionary glory is often thought of in terms of bringing new persons to Christ. It seems—but is not—less glorious to heal the household of the faith.Saint of the Day, Copyright Franciscan Media

Send us Fan MailEngland's conversion didn't begin with a throne room debate. It began with a monk stepping onto a foggy shoreline, carrying the Gospel, trusting the Eucharist, and refusing to meet fear with force. We tell the story of Saint Augustine of Canterbury as a true Catholic pilgrimage, one shaped by obedience, humility, and the kind of courage that looks quiet until it changes history. We start by sketching the world Augustine enters: late sixth century Anglo-Saxon kingdoms marked by pagan worship, local warlords, and a deep spiritual longing that doesn't yet know the name of Christ. From there, we follow Pope Gregory the Great and the moment that moves him to act, then the careful wisdom of his instructions: go patiently, teach gradually, and let witness carry the weight of the message. Along the way, we return again and again to core Catholic themes that made the mission possible, devotion to Mary, the rosary, and unwavering faith in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. Then we arrive in Kent, where first encounters matter. We walk through Augustine's meeting with King Ethelbert, the first Mass celebrated on English soil, and the steady influence of Queen Bertha, whose prayerful fidelity helps prepare a kingdom for baptism. The takeaway is simple and demanding: evangelization grows through prayer, charity, and sacramental life, one household at a time. If you care about Catholic saints, Church history, or how to share the faith today without compromise, this story will stay with you. Subscribe for more, share this with a friend who loves the saints, and leave a review so more listeners can find us. What's one “yes” you're being asked to make right now?Open by Steve Bailey Support the showChat with US 24/7 Ask us anything https://chatting.page/mjxs9aerrtgm3lmpndlcepmbyosntrjnDownload Journeys of Faith App for Iphone or Android FREE https://journeysoffaith.com/pages/download-our-appJourneys of Faith brings your Super Saints PodcastsPlease consider subscribing to this podcast or making a donation to Journeys of Faith Help us Grow!Why you should shop here at Journeys of Faith official site!New Mega Search Engine!Lowest Prices and Higher discounts up to 50%Free Shipping starts at $18 - Express Safe Checkout Click HereCannot find it let us find or create it - - Click HereRewards Program is active - click Here

Full Text of Readings Wednesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 349 The Saint of the day is Saint Augustine of Canterbury Saint Augustine of Canterbury's Story In the year 596, some 40 monks set out from Rome to evangelize the Anglo-Saxons in England. Leading the group was Augustine, the prior of their monastery. Hardly had he and his men reached Gaul when they heard stories of the ferocity of the Anglo-Saxons and of the treacherous waters of the English Channel. Augustine returned to Rome and to Gregory the Great—the pope who had sent them—only to be assured by him that their fears were groundless. Augustine of Canterbury set out again. This time the group crossed the English Channel and landed in the territory of Kent, ruled by King Ethelbert, a pagan married to a Christian, Bertha. Ethelbert received them kindly, set up a residence for them in Canterbury and within the year, on Pentecost Sunday 597, was himself baptized. After being consecrated a bishop in France, Augustine returned to Canterbury, where he founded his see. He constructed a church and monastery near where the present cathedral, begun in 1070, now stands. As the faith spread, additional sees were established at London and Rochester. Work was sometimes slow and Augustine of Canterbury did not always meet with success. Attempts to reconcile the Anglo-Saxon Christians with the original Briton Christians—who had been driven into western England by Anglo-Saxon invaders—ended in dismal failure. Augustine failed to convince the Britons to give up certain Celtic customs at variance with Rome and to forget their bitterness, helping him evangelize their Anglo-Saxon conquerors. Laboring patiently, Augustine of Canterbury wisely heeded the missionary principles—quite enlightened for the times—suggested by Pope Gregory: purify rather than destroy pagan temples and customs; let pagan rites and festivals be transformed into Christian feasts; retain local customs as far as possible. The limited success Augustine achieved in England before his death in 605, a short eight years after his arrival, would eventually bear fruit long after in the conversion of England. Augustine of Canterbury can truly be called the “Apostle of England.” Reflection Augustine of Canterbury comes across today as a very human saint, one who could suffer like many of us from a failure of nerve. For example, his first venture to England ended in a big U-turn back to Rome. He made mistakes and met failure in his peacemaking attempts with the Briton Christians. He often wrote to Rome for decisions on matters he could have decided on his own had he been more self-assured. He even received mild warnings against pride from Pope Gregory, who cautioned him to “fear lest, amidst the wonders that are done, the weak mind be puffed up by self-esteem.” Augustine's perseverance amidst obstacles and only partial success teaches today's apostles and pioneers to struggle on despite frustrations and be satisfied with gradual advances.Saint of the Day, Copyright Franciscan Media

Dan explains the Battle of Brunanburh, an epic clash that decided the fate of the British Isles. On one side, the Anglo-Saxon forces of King Æthelstan, fighting for his vision for a unified England; on the other, a massive ‘anti-Wessex' coalition of Vikings, Scots and Celts, determined to stop the English project from taking hold.Today, we explore the high-stakes diplomacy that led to this point, hear how this savage battle played out, and dig into its consequences for the modern UK.Written and produced by Dan Snow, and edited by Dougal Patmore.We need your help! Let us know what you want from Dan Snow's History Hit by filling in our anonymous survey here: https://forms.gle/PvgayWLkWGjYT4St6Dan Snow's History Hit is now available on YouTube! Check it out at: https://www.youtube.com/@DSHHPodcastSign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe.You can also email the podcast directly at ds.hh@historyhit.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's time to uncork the bottle of mythology and folklore to talk about a true English original - Imps!Beginning their lives as horticultural metaphors, the Anglo Saxon 'ympe' appears in all sorts of moralizing, overtly Christian texts, including those written by Alfred the Great - only by the 17th century if you had an imp of your own you could be hanged for the crime.How did this all come about?Well, it's a combination of several factors, including Bronze Age beliefs about Middle Eastern supernatural entities that haunted toilets, bed chambers, and windowsills, the stinking bogs and fens of Ireland and the British Isles, and Medieval explanations for the hierarchies of demons following Lucifer's rebellion against God.We track the imp's evolution from House Spirits made of dough, fed with milk and flour, through to the Witch Hunts of the English Republic, and the 19th century 'Imp Revival' as prompted by Romantic and Gothic literature, fairy stories, and Victorian satire.With a disgraceful number of puns (even more than last month!) and some really weird beliefs, as well as Eleanor reading some Old English, they may be tiny but we've gone in on Imps in a big way. Just don't tell the Witch Hunter General, who for some reason thinks we're keeping our mischievous familiars stashed in our armpits...We also hope you increasingly pleased by our new Bestiary episode art, as drawn by our good friend Tom Peteuil of Creature Castle - check out brand new Imp, Mermaid and Leprechaun merch here and visit the Creature Castle shop for prints and other wonderful things here.Speak to you again on Thursday for this week's Lang Fairy Tale, Graciosa and Percinet, and some no doubt spirited chat about it, before Saturday's Three Ravens Live episode, packed with Sussex folklore, as recorded at Ditchling Bookshop on 16th May!Three Ravens is an English Myth and Folklore podcast hosted by award-winning writers Martin Vaux and Eleanor Conlon.Released on Mondays, each weekly episode focuses on one of England's 39 historic counties, exploring the history, folklore and traditions of the area, from ghosts and mermaids to mythical monsters, half-forgotten heroes, bloody legends, and much, much more. Then, and most importantly, we take turns to tell a new version of an ancient story from that county - all before discussing what that tale might mean, where it might have come from, and the truths it reveals about England's hidden past...Bonus Episodes are released on Thursdays plus Local Legends episodes on Saturdays - interviews with acclaimed authors, folklorists, podcasters and historians with unique perspectives on that week's county.With a range of exclusive content on Patreon, too, including audio ghost tours, the Three Ravens Newsletter, and monthly Three Ravens Film Club episodes about folk horror films from across the decades, why not join us around the campfire and listen in?REGISTER FOR THE TALES OF SOUTHERN ENGLAND TOURVisit our website Join our Patreon Social media channels and sponsors Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Umay Acar-Sümer |Writer and Composer of ‘Beowulf the MusicalBio:Umay Acar-Sümer is a Turkish singer and composer based in Hampshire, UK. Having completed an MA in Medieval Studies and MMus in Music Composition at Royal Holloway, Umay draws inspiration from medieval literature and history in her writing. She is the writer and composer of ‘Beowulf the Musical', a two-act musical made up of 35 song based on the medieval epic poem Beowulf. ‘Beowulf the Musical' premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2024 with Umay playing the role of Freawaru; the musical is now set to release an album with many of the original cast and orchestra members reprising their roles. Umay's writing influences include late medieval authors like Geoffrey Chaucer, Sir Thomas Malory and Chrétien de Troyes as well as anonymous poems from the Anglo-Saxon period such as The Wanderer, The Battle of Maldon and The Seafarer. Musically she is inspired by contemporary composers such as Alan Menken, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lin Manuel Miranda and Anais Mitchell as well as the works of Handel, Verdi, Mozart and Strauss. Umay is currently working on her next musical; a sapphic fairytale about a girl with a magical harp teaming up with a disgraced knight to defeat a dragon.Links:Website:https://umaymakesmusic.wordpress.com/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@umaymakesmusichttps://www.tiktok.com/@beowulfthemusical Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/umayisnotherehttps://www.facebook.com/beowulfthemusicalInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/umayisnotherehttps://www.instagram.com/beowulfthemusical Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/artist/5IrAUtyarBSJGbvzazeBuZ YouTube:https://youtube.com/@umayisnothereTagspodcast for creativescreative podcastpodcast creator interviewsprofessional podcastcreative podcastspodcast host interviewscreative podcast ideasSupport PEG by checking out our Sponsors:Download and use Newsly for free now from www.newsly.me or from the link in the description, and use promo code “GHOST” and receive a 1-month free premium subscription.The best tool for getting podcast guests:https://podmatch.com/signup/phantomelectricghostSubscribe to our Instagram for exclusive content:https://www.instagram.com/expansive_sound_experiments/Subscribe to our YouTube https://youtube.com/@phantomelectricghost?si=rEyT56WQvDsAoRprRSShttps://anchor.fm/s/3b31908/podcast/rssSubstackhttps://substack.com/@phantomelectricghost?utm_source=edit-profile-page

Internet streamer Hasan Piker declared the United States a "white supremacist county" during a recent appearance. Piker is a spoiled rich idiot, but in his statements, he ironically echoed President Trump's remarks about America's Anglo-Saxon heritage. We'll look at what Piker gets wrong but also what he accidentally gets right when describing human nature.  We'll also look at Alexander Dugin's bizarre crashout against white people on social media.  Follow on: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-auron-macintyre-show/id1657770114 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3S6z4LBs8Fi7COupy7YYuM?si=4d9662cb34d148af Substack: https://auronmacintyre.substack.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AuronMacintyre Gab: https://gab.com/AuronMacIntyre YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/c/AuronMacIntyre Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-390155 Odysee: https://odysee.com/@AuronMacIntyre:f Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/auronmacintyre/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For nearly two thousand years, swords reigned as humanity's weapon of choice—the first tools designed exclusively to kill other humans rather than hunt animals. When archaeologist Paul Gething rediscovered a rusty blade forgotten in a suitcase for thirty years, he unknowingly held one of history's most sophisticated weapons: a seventh-century Northumbrian sword so complex and finely crafted that only a king could have commanded its creation. The Bamburgh Sword tells the story of Anglo-Saxon England from 450 to 1066 AD, when feuding warlords wielded these pattern-welded blades with razor-sharp steel edges and bendy iron cores—weapons so precious they were covered with jeweled handles and ornate scabbards. Today's guest is Edoardo Albert, author of The Perfect Sword: Forging the Dark Ages. We discuss how Bronze Age smiths in Minoan Crete around 1700 BC created the first definitive swords, how the introduction of iron around 1300 BC democratized warfare by putting blades in everyone's hands, and why the Bamburgh Sword represents the pinnacle of Anglo-Saxon craftsmanship. We also explore what was lost when firearms replaced swords—as the Turkish folk hero Köroğlu reportedly lamented: "The rifle was invented, and bravery was ruined."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.