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311 – Team Edward
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310 – Political Theater
Human beings can’t really be summed up in a nickname. Usually we are more complicated than a word or two. And sometimes, the nickname just doesn’t reflect reality. If you take Edward the Elder, for example,
309 – Size Doesn’t Matter (until it does)
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308 – A Thirst for Reform
Across the North Sea, in Scandinavia, a man named...
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307 – Cleaning House
The King is dead. Long live the King. Eadwig, the 18 year old King known for his beauty, had died. Somehow.
306 – King Eadwig
The King is dead, long live the King. So … last episode was a bit of a shocker wasn’t it?
305 – A Very Special BHP Valentine’s Day Episode
History is known as a field for being a bit of a slog. Tracing events, and people, and social movements through decades and centuries is a huge task and the results are usually dense at the best of times. But once in a while,
304 – A Kingdom Divided
Northumbria was always the hot mess of the...
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303 – Eric Bloodaxe
We can probably assume that Harald Fairhair, the King of Norway, had fantastic hair. It was either big, or really long, or super glossy, and it was almost definitely blonde. But it wasn’t the only trait he was known for.