Chapter 8- Odin’s Fashionistas (Part Two- The dirty secret of the early Vikings) (820-835)
The second part of the special looking closely at the advent of the age of the Vikings; exploring why the residents of London would have seen these guys as highly fashionable merchants and not raiders...
5 Okt 202232min
Chapter 7- Odin’s Fashionista’s (Part One- The decline of Mercia) (820-835)
The first of a two-part special; it’s 820, and London is part of the powerful and strong Mercian Kingdom; and yet within 15 years the world was to turn upside down, and on the horizon, something scary...
4 Okt 202224min
Chapter 6- Offa’s Emporium (733- 820)
We return to the story of London with the tale of the most powerful of the Mercian King’s of the city, and why London was producing coins with faux Arabic script on them…Cover includes detail from the...
30 Sep 202239min
Chapter 5- A Mercian Market (666- 733 CE)
The story continues as we look at how Lundenwic (London) thrived and grew due to it’s relationship with the Kingdom of Mercia; we also look at some of the wider implications of the towns story so far....
27 Sep 202230min
Chapter 4- The Mercian Takeover (627-666 CE)
The story of London continues as we look at how the weak kingdom of Mercia ended up taking over the town of Lundenwic, starting a centuries long relationship with the city.Cover art includes detail of...
20 Sep 202225min
Chapter 3- Welcome to Lundenwic (450-627 CE)
The story of London continues with the tale of the formation of the Saxon settlement of Lundenwic, the market town built one mile west of the old Roman ruins, and the complicated and obscure changing ...
13 Sep 202229min
Chapter 2- The birth, life and (multiple) deaths of Londinium (47CE-450CE)
Welcome back to the second episode of the story of London; this one with added controversy. We do the entire history of Roman London in one episode.Why? Because… reasons…All music courtesy of artlist....
8 Sep 202220min
Chapter 1- London BEFORE London
Welcome to the Story of London. Our opening episode quickly introduces the scale and size of what we will be trying to do, before getting stuck right into our first part of the story; an account of th...
8 Sep 202224min
