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510 episodes transcribedFew kings have left more of an impression on the English - and then the British - nation as King Henry V, who died on 31 August 1422. The Battle of Ag...
In this episode of Gone Medieval, presenter Dr. Cat Jarman swaps seats and becomes the guest of Dr. Kate Lister’s brilliant podcast from History Hit,...
England, 1351. In the aftermath of the Pestilence, Gerard Fox - a young knight robbed of his ancestral home, his family name tarnished - sets forth to...
The unusual Anchor Church Caves in south Derbyshire were, until quite recently, thought to have been follies cut into the rock in the eighteenth centu...
Between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, a profound transformation took place in the ways that the English language was spoken and words were...
Early Medieval Britain was more Roman than we think. The Roman Empire left vast infrastructural resources, not least roads, walls and bridges. Why hav...
How do you go about finding your way around the history of a nation and a national identity? For the barrister and author Dominic Selwood, documents a...
Archaeology has a lot to contribute to our knowledge and understanding of the so-called Dark Ages, and every now and then new sites are found in place...
From an age in which women’s lives were obscured and poorly recorded, one shines brightly from the darkness. Eleanor of Aquitaine - born 900 year...
The first of Greenland’s Viking settlements were established in the tenth century. But by the fifteenth century, they had all but vanished, their fate...
Parish churches were at the heart of English social life in the Middle Ages. But how did they come into existence? Who staffed them? And how were the...
Trees have been universally important to humanity throughout history - not only as the source of fruits and nuts, but also wood for tools, weapons and...
The twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a time when the close friendship or petty feuding between monarchs could determine the course of history. Th...
Few early medieval gods are as well-known and as popular as Thor. He’s currently thrilling moviegoers worldwide with his new outing for the Marve...
Gardens and gardening are aspects of medieval life that rarely get much attention. But it was a period when those with a little more land created gard...
Alfred the Great - King of the West Saxons and later King of all the English not under Scandinavian rule - is the only English King to be given the ti...
When we think of fairy tales, we think of imprisoned maidens, turreted towers, magic spinning wheels, wicked witches and demonic dwarves and dragons....
All Saints’ Church in the village of Brixworth, Northamptonshire is one of the oldest, largest and most complete Anglo-Saxon churches in England. Foun...
Richard III is one of Shakespeare’s most controversial plays, often cited as the basis for the King’s reputation as a scheming murderer. But what do t...
Norwich Castle was designed by William the Conqueror to be a royal palace. But no Norman kings ever lived in it. Instead it became a gaol and then - i...
