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Category: Podcast Episodes
BHP Pub Quiz #27
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250 – The Year 900
It’s the year 900. We’ve closed out another century, and the 900’s are looking as tumultuous as the 800’s. But before we move forward in our story of our Island – still in many ways at the end of the world – the BHP is going to take a moment to look at what is happening with the rest of… Read more →
249 – Kenneth MacAlpin and the Birth of Scotland
We’ve reached the end of an era. It was late 899, and Alfred (who has been our central figure for dozens of episodes) was at last at rest. But with his death, there was a sudden opening at the top levels of West Saxon politics and Alfred’s son, Edward, was a top contender for that position. Read more →
248 – The Death of Alfred the Great
By 897, everything Alfred had known…. changed. He was barely in his 20s when he took the throne and he hadn’t had a chance to stop for a breath for the decades that followed. He had been king for over half of his life, and in those years he’d proven himself to be an energetic and inventive king. Wessex under… Read more →
247 – Our Wooden Wall
The Danes encamped at Bridgnorth had been campaigning for years. Many had come here with Haesten and the Appledore fleet. They were the veterans of the continental campaigns. And for years now they had been fighting tooth and nail with the Anglo Saxons. But despite all the time they had spent here. Despite their massive numbers, their surprise marches, their… Read more →
246 – The Hard Edge of Soft Power
When I write an episode I begin by looking at what has happened in the past, then at what will come in the future, and only after that do I allow myself to focus on what is occurring for this episode. I do this because I want to know the context of these events. The sources that have survived don’t… Read more →
Members Only 87 – Easter Eggs and Errors in The Last Kingdom: Episodes 7 and 8
What they got right, what they got wrong, and where they accidentally went all Marvel vs Capcom 2… in Episodes 7 and 8 of the Last Kingdom. Read more →
BHP Pub Quiz #26
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245 – King Alfred: Infrastructure is Sexy
For the Viking army fleeing Shoebury, there wasn’t much to look forward to in a winter holiday at Chester. It would be wet. It would be cold. It would be creepy. The old Roman settlement had been abandoned for quite some time, and that probably didn’t sit well with the superstitious danes. And besides being creepy, Chester promised generally rough… Read more →