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Episode 2The rise of Alfred the Great. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 1How the Vikings pushed Anglo-Saxon England to the brink. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Alfred the Great, Anglo-Saxon king of Wessex

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The Vikings mutilated and maimed their defeated enemies. So why did Alfred the Great spare their leader?

Detail from the Bayeux Tapestry showing townspeople pointing towards Halley’s Comet, which appeared in the sky in 1066.

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The Bayeux Tapestry has returned to the UK – and this is how you can see it

This 19th-century illustration depicts Harold Godwinson swearing fealty to William of Normandy

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The Bayeux Tapestry: what is it, why was it made and what story does it tell?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A medieval illustration of a person ploughing a field with two oxen. The oxen are harnessed in a pair, pulling a large wooden plough with a single wheel. The background is painted in warm yellow and orange tones, giving the scene a simple, stylised look.

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How did the Anglo-Saxons triumph in Britain? You can blame it on the Romans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of medieval knights on horseback rides together, all wearing chainmail and carrying shields. At the centre is a crowned king holding a raised sword, identified in the manuscript text as King Offa of Mercia. One rider blows a horn, while two others lift their arms toward the sky. Beneath the horses lies the crowned head of a fallen king, labelled as the slain King Cynewulf.

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Saint killer, warmonger, tyrant: was the Anglo-Saxon king Offa as bad as history makes out?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 4How the Vikings reshaped Anglo-Saxon England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Composite image of two early medieval helmets: the ornate Sutton Hoo helmet on the left and a simpler Viking helmet on the right.

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The Anglo-Saxons were terrified of Vikings. But were they really so different?

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Episode 3How Alfred the Great saved the Anglo-Saxons from the Vikings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A skull found in the Wandlebury excavation

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This morbid Viking Age death pit is more mystifying than it first seemed – here’s why

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Beyond the podcastAlfred vs the Vikings

Medieval manuscript illustration of two crowned kings embracing to symbolise an agreement.

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Did the Bible really inspire an early medieval king’s disgusting death?

Illustration of the last Anglo-Saxon king, Harold Godwinson, crowned and holding a sceptre and orb, with scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry in the background.

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One of medieval history’s biggest mysteries has just been solved – and it rewrites 1066

Composite image showing a medieval cesspit excavation alongside historic coins found within the deposit.

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From health to wealth, here are the strange secrets medieval toilets reveal about life in the Middle Ages

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Beyond the podcastMagna Carta

An illustration of the English King Aethelstan, in front of Viking silver.

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How England’s first king used an unexpected weapon to defeat the Vikings

A composite image showing the Queen Mother in front of the Bayeux Tapestry.

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Could the Queen Mother have secured the loan of the Bayeux Tapestry to the British Museum 45 years ago?

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Æthelstan: the king who made England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Find wonder in the world around you. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Bayeux Tapestry depicts Harold Godwinson, Earl of Wessex and future king of England, riding a horse with a hawk perched on his hand.

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The Bayeux Tapestry is beautiful, but what was its purpose? New research might have the answer

A colourised portrait of English astronomer Edmond Halley, wearing a long curled wig and red robes. A bright comet streaks through a starry sky in the background.

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Has history’s most famous comet been misnamed for centuries? “The answer is clear,” say historians

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The REAL history behind Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and more. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 5Anglo-Saxon and Norman cesspits. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Who was REALLY buried at Sutton Hoo? The secrets behind the famous helmet. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This 6th-century matrix from Torslunda, Sweden, was used to create helmet plaques depicting armed figures — likely berserkers — wearing horned helmets with bird motifs and animal masks. Such imagery evokes the warrior culture later embraced by Viking champions like Thorkell the Tall, a famed Jomsviking commander known for his fierce loyalty and shifting allegiances during the early 11th century.

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Who was Thorkell the Tall? The pragmatic Viking warrior who fought for (and against) all sides

An illustration showing a king dressed in green and orange, sitting on a blue throne made out of books. He is reading from a long scroll

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Love learning like Æthelstan. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of Matilda of Flanders, queen consort of William the Conqueror, wearing a crown and richly decorated cloak and holding a book and sceptre.

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The conqueror’s queen: meet the real Matilda of Flanders

An illustration of a king dressed in a green and orange robe. He is wearing a crown and holding a sceptre

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King Æthelstan: England's colossus. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A black and white photograph shows two men standing with their faces very close together. They both have serious expressions on their faces and are staring down the lens of the camera. Across the bottom are the words KING & CONQUEROR

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The wrong moustache in the Battle of Hastings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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