From long-lost Viking ships to kings buried in unexpected places; from murders and power politics, to myths, religion, the lives of ordinary people: Gone Medieval is History Hit’s podcast dedicated to the middle ages, in Europe and far beyond.New episodes every Tuesday and Friday.A podcast by History Hit, the world's best history channel and creators of award-winning podcasts Dan Snow's History Hit, The Ancients, and Betwixt the Sheets.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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
510 episodes transcribedAn extraordinary discovery has been unearthed by archaeologists working alongside the HS2 rail project. The find, made at an undisclosed location near...
Between 1000 and 1500, European towns and cities started to take shape, impacting the lives of millions of people as different cultural, social and re...
Matt Lewis concludes his series on the Wars of the Roses with a look at a figure who is often divisive and misunderstood, despised or loved, but who m...
When HM The Queen was crowned in 1953, her Coronation ceremony contained some subtle nods to another Queen who made history 1100 years earlier. Prince...
To celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, Matt Lewis revisits the fascinating story of Empress Matilda who came within a hair’s breadth of being crow...
What do human remains - and the objects buried with them - tell us about people’s lives in Britain in the first millennium, what they thought about mo...
As part of our Wars of the Roses special month, there’s one family that demands more attention than they usually get: The Beauforts’.The influence of...
Rivers, Silk roads and camels - how did international trade adapt and survive beyond the Roman Empire into the middle ages? In today's episode Cat is...
All things must end. This final special episode on the Wars of the Roses deals with a series of endings and considers what finding a date for the end...
Early medieval royals ate mostly meat, right? Wrong! A new study that’s made headlines around the world has shown that medieval kings were largely veg...
Part one of this comprehensive trilogy covering the Wars of the Roses left the Yorkist lords attained and in exile. From this point, the 15th century...
Margery Kempe was an English Christian mystic, known for writing "The Book of Margery Kempe", a work considered by some to be the first autobiogr...
The Wars of the Roses is a complex and fascinating period of English history that dominates the second half of the 15th century and leads to the rise...
In today’s Gone Medieval podcast, Matt Lewis joins Dallas Campbell - host of our sister podcast Patented: History of Inventions - to explore the role...
Histories of India usually concern themselves with events and invasions in the subcontinent’s North, while the rest of India’s rich story is often red...
The term “Middle Ages” is commonly used but really only applies to a Western European view of history. It was created at the beginning of the Early Mo...
The Northman now showing in UK cinemas is an action-filled epic that follows a young Viking prince on his quest to avenge his father's murder. It...
Easter today is marked by chocolate eggs and two Bank Holidays - in the Medieval world it had a deeply spiritual significance.But it wasn’t without it...
Little has been known up until now about the involvement and power of women during the Crusader period. When Saladin's armies besieged Jerusalem in 11...
