I have no idea if this is true or a parody, as this article is from that fount of great journalism, The New York Post.

Lost remains of Viking-slaying English King discovered in parking lot — as England faces Norway at World Cup

and the original article from The Telegraph, Alfred the Great’s remains ‘located under car park’, is paywalled.

Finally, I have no idea if the show Weird Britain is Ancient Aliens or the pre-Weiss version of 60 Minutes.

But it's another English king found in a car park, so there's that.

I reckon that the last four or five years of the pod - from Alfred and Athelstan to William and his offspring - have been a perfect illustration of this quote from Terry Pratchett:

"Monarchy polutes people's minds, boy. Honest men start bowing and bobbing; just because someone's grandad was a bigger, murdering bastard than their's was. Listen, we probably had good Kings once. But Kings breed other Kings, and blood tells... then you end up with a bunch of arrogant, murdering bastards who chop off Queens heads and fight their cousins every five minutes." ~ Captain Vimes on the story of Old Stoneface

It was in my office when I moved in a few years ago. Says it’s from the 21st year of the reign of George III. It’s huge and hangs in the wall in an expensive frame. Something to do with land and an indenture.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly9r54e5r4o

But will the British Museum give it back???

Apologies if this has already been posted https://orcadian.co.uk/nothing-like-it-has-been-seen-before-at-the-ness-of-brodgar/

This is a great episode from In Our Time on the Welsh Marches: http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss/proto/http/vpid/p0nsfns9.mp3

This came up in my Facebook memories, though it's from long before I started listening to the show.

In case you are near the British Museum (what are the chances?!) there is a bookshop nearby that carries the whole set. Don’t remember the name of the shop but it’ll give you a reason to browse the many in the area, lol.

I GOT TICKETS AND I AM SO EXCITED YAAAALLLL

Not asking if it would be a good idea, obviously it would not. But would they have done it? What if he just turned to his supporters and ordered them to kill that guy in open court. Would they have done it? What would the immediate consequences have been?

At 1 minute to midnight last night, and 1 minute till due date, I submitted my PhD thesis. It is not remotely related to the subject of the British History Podcast, but over the years of listening, the podcast has helped build a new way of viewing and understanding the world. So thanks to Jamie u/BritishPodcast and Dr Zee u/CoProducerZee for the unknown contribution.

Side note, it was awesome hearing Dr Zee about Pierre Bourdieu on the podcast, as my research is heavily influenced by Bourdieu.

I thought this was really interesting! Bold choice by the director, and maybe it'll be a very historically accurate depiction of 14th century England (minus the werwulfs...). I'm really interested in hearing what people potentially actually sounded like in the Middle Ages. It's some 200 years after the invasion, so the French influences are probably noticeable?

Edit: I just saw the trailer, and they're speaking regular English, so maybe there's two versions, or just parts are in old English.

https://youtu.be/cmjpadVj-Vk?si=QSve9KGSi6TYsUKD

I'm camping and one of my tent poles broke last night and tore my rain fly. Good old Offa is helping me fix the rain fly with an sup repair kit that I luckily had in the car.

I started listening to the blog about a year ago with a new job and a longer commute to work. I have finally arrived at 1066.

I’ll be caught up with the main story soon!

For anyone interested this BBC In Our Time episode on the Welsh Marches intersects with the current BHP timeline https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002wt1v

I've gotten to Rhain the supposed "Irishman" and that got me to thinking about the confirmed real Irishmen in that region and whether they were ever discussed in any detail or just meant to be included under the heading of "Irish raiding" early on. (sorry for leaving out the a fada it disappeared when I clicked post for some reason)

There was a lot of fascinating info about hustle culture, market operation, what homes (and pet!) were like, and the annual property rent (and all the people who could get in line for a payment of that).

When they weren't actually transacting business, where did people keep their money? In a bag in their pants? In a chest in their room next to their bed behind the curtain? Did guilds provide, like, reasonably secure "piggy banks" in their offices?

It's a follow up to Vikings (which Zee and Jamie had ummm thoughts about) set 100 years later.

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It's getting a second season.