Chapter 12- Who Killed Lundenwic? (Part 1/2) (872-886)
A special two part episode, as we try and work out who was responsible, ultimately, for the death of Saxon London as it was. In the first part, we examine the role of the King’s of Mercia and the grea...
9 Nov 202235min
Chapter 11- The First Occupation (866-872)
The Story of London gets to the part where the Viking attacks increase as we explore two things impacting upon it- the start of the reign of Alfred the Great and the Great Heathen Army! And how the Vi...
2 Nov 202234min
Chapter 10- Survivors… (852-866)
The Vikings had raided London… how did the survivors cope and how did this change them? The Story continues looking at both the aftermath and potentially what created the identity of the city of come....
20 Okt 202235min
Chapter 9- The Violations of London (836-851)
An deep dive into both the evolution of the tactics and scale of the early Vikings and their impact upon London; how the small collections of pirates grew and escalated their attacks to the point they...
12 Okt 202244min
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
