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The Dark Ages | The British History Podcast — 177 episodes

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498 – Power and Predictability

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497 – That’s Me In The Spot. Light.

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496 – That’s Me In The Corner

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495 – Power Struggles: Part Two

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494 – Power Struggles: Part One

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493 – The Price of Peace

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492 – The War for Perception

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Bonus Episode: The Authoritarians

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Pilgrimage Sample

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Lords and Landlords Sample

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470 – Tough Treaty

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469 – Robert of Rhuddlan

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468 – Regicide’s Back On The Menu Boys

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Medieval Childhoods

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466 – The Bachelor

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465 – Anselm Arrives

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Medieval Education Sample

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463 – Finding Out

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462 – Defenestration Nation

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Medieval Magic Sample: Shout at the Devil

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456 – Law and Order: Durham

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451 – The Lucky Few

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443 – We’re Bigger Than Jesus

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442 – Mynydd Carn

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441 – God Bothering

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440 – This is Fine

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438 – Robert’s Rebellion

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437 – Everyone’s Pissed

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436 – Taking the Piss

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435 – Trials and Tribulations

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434 – The Boys

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433 – North Wales: I Love Mess

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430 – Is It Good To Be King?

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429 – Power Brokers and Power Breakers

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428 – Tightening the Grip

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427 – Hereward: Back Into the Mist

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424 – Hereward: ft. Judas Priest

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423 – Hereward: The Lion, The Witch, and the War Hero

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422 – Hereward: The Man, the Myth, The Legend

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421 – The Wake at Ely

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420 – The Wake and the Earl

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419 – The Wake at Peterborough

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418 – God’s Chosen

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417 – The (far more than four) Horsemen

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416 – The Harrying of the North

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408 – Kerosene

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404 – The Coronation of Queen Matilda

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403 – The Siege of Exeter

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402 – Fire Sale

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398 – William: Winning Friends and Influencing People Is For Suckers

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397 – William: The Devil Inside

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392 – The Night is Dark and Full of Terrors

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383 – The Death of King Edward

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375 – Life and Death Politics. But Mostly Death.

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374 – Be Careful What You Wish For

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362 – Meet the Godwins

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354 – The West, after Cnut

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351 – Collapse

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349 – AElfgifu’s Tale

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341 – King Cnut of England

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338 – The Fall of King Edmund Ironsides

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337 – The Rise of King Edmund Ironside

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336 – The End Is The Beginning Is The End

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330 – The Purge

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326 – The Year 1000

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320 – Our Wooden Wall

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316 – The Old Guard

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314 – Æthelred: Are You Ready?

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313 – How to Make a Martyr

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307 – Cleaning House

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305 – A Very Special BHP Valentine’s Day Episode

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303 – Eric Bloodaxe

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298 – Uptown Ceorl

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297 – The Hundreds and the Wapentakes

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286 – Noble Pursuits

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264 – The Lost Rebellion

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261 – The Anglo Saxon Chronicle and the Mercian Register

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257 – Political Accommodation Within The Danelaw

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256 – Scandinavian Settlement in England

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255 – Londonwic to London

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254 – Worcester

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253 – Anglo Saxon Market Towns in the Viking Age

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252 – The Coming of the Anglo-Scandinavians

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250 – The Year 900

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246 – The Hard Edge of Soft Power

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244 – Haesten’s Advance

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238 – A Patchwork of War

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235 – Alfred’s Educational Reforms

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232 – Fifth Century Britain with Dr. Catherine Hills

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231 – Anglo Saxon Economics and Money with Professor Rory Naismith

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224 – Chapter Six: Wessex

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207 – Christianity in Early Danelaw

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206 – Did the Great Heathen Army Persecute Christians?

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204 – Snottingham

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199 – AEthelred vs Alfred: One of the Most Exciting Moments in Probate History

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191 – Urban Fervor

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190 – House (of Wessex): Everybody Lies

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189 – What on earth is an English

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160 – An Offa Inheritance

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159 – An Offa End

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158 – Offa With His Head

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157 – Lindisfarne

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156 – An Offa Marriage

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155 – Its Always Sunny in Mercia: The Gang Throws a Party

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152 – Limited Time Offa

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151 – Offa and Acceptance

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150 – King Offa: The Turnover

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149 – King Offa Ascends the Throne

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148 – The Fall of King AEthelbald

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147 – The Twelve Days of Christmas

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146 – King AEthelbald: A Whirlpool of Perdition

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145 – The Rise of King AEthelbald of Mercia

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144 – King Ceolred: A Lunatic Running the Asylum

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143 – Man Up: Gender in the Middle Ages

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142 – The Failed Dynastic Politics of Mercia and Northumbria

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141 – King Aldfrith and St. Wilfrid

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140 – Wilfrid: How to Win Friends and Influence People

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139 – The Rise of Aldfrith and Caedwalla

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138 – Religious Lives in Britain

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137 – Preaching in the Dark Ages

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135 – A Reshuffling of Power

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134 – The Power of Northumbria

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129 – The Life of King Wulfhere

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128 – The End of King Oswiu’s Hegemony

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127 – The Synod of Whitby

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126 – The End of an Era: The Triumph of Christianity in Britain

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125 – King Oswiu: A Gathering Storm

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124 – Social Mobility: Getting a Raise in Anglo Saxon Kingdoms

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123 – Retail Therapy: The Rise of Anglo Saxon Towns

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122 – The Concentration of Power and Wealth

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121 – King Oswiu: The Aftermath of the Winwaed

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120 – Penda and Oswiu: The Winwaed

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119 – King Penda: No Posers

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118 – Oswiu and Oswine: There’s No Anglo Saxon Word for Take Backsies

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117 – Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

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116 – Wait, Where Are We? Part two of the history of Britain so far.

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115 – Maserfield: Blood Makes The Grass Grow

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114 – Oswald and Sigeberht: The Softer Side of Rule

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113 – Religious Ambitions: The Rise of Oswald (and Others)

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112 – The Battle of Heavenfield

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111 – Edwin: What Goes Around Comes Around

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110 – Mercia: A New Contender Enters the Ring

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109 – Edwin’s Ambitions

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107 – Edwin’s Conversion

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106 – If You Give Edwin an Inch…

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105 – Sutton Hoo: Treasures of the Dead

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104 – Sutton Hoo: The Finding of Raedwald… and Rabbits

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100 – There’s a New Barber In Town

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94 – Dark Age Beliefs

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93 – Chapter Three: The Warriors of God

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87 – Concubinage and Apartheid in Anglo Saxon England

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83 – Dark Age Warfare Combo Episode

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82 – War. What Is It Good For?

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81 – In Search of Unity: A Tale of Selective Memory

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80 – Bloodletting

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78 – It’s Only Natural

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77 – Cliques: How the In Crowd Created Our Culture

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76 – Developing Class

159

72 – Staffordshire Hoard: Wrapping Up with Kevin Leahy

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71 – Staffordshire Hoard: Psychopathic Peacocks with David Symons

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70 – Staffordshire Hoard: Interpretation with Cathy Shingler

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69 – Staffordshire Hoard: Conservation with Deborah Cane

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68 – Staffordshire Hoard: A Bonus Update on the New Find

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67 – Staffordshire Hoard: Deb Klemperer on the Dig

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66 – Staffordshire Hoard: Receiving the Hoard

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65 – Staffordshire Hoard: The Dig

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63 – King Arthur Part One

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62 – Staffordshire Hoard: Rise Up O Lord

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61 – Staffordshire Hoard: Introduction

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60 – The Return of the Kings

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58 – Dark Age Medicine

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55 – Anglo Saxon Construction

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54 – What Not To Wear: In The Dark Ages

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51 – Dark Ages Feasting

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49 – Dark Age Economics

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48 – Dark Age Diets Combo Episode

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43 – Le Mort d’Arthur (Bonus Episode)