Spanish Flu: A Warning From History
The 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic killed over 50 million people
History
How Doggerland Sank Beneath The Waves
Britain became an island after a catastrophic Mesolithic tsunami
536 AD: Justinian, The Arrival of the Black Plague and The End of Antiquity
536 AD has been called the worst year in history
A History of Britain – Celts and Romans (800 BC – 1 AD)
The story of how Britain became Celtic
Ireland’s First Viking Age (800-875)
The Vikings arrive in Ireland and create the Kingdom of Dublin
Who Are The Celts?
How did the British become Celts?
A History of Britain – Bronze and Iron (2200 BC – 800 BC)
The British Bell Beaker culture arrives in Britain and replaces Neolithic farmers
Leif Erikson Discovers America (999 AD)
The Vikings arrive in Vinland in the 10th century
The British Bronze Age
Survive the Jive explains the British Bell Beaker culture
Harald Fairhair Ravages The Western Isles
Harald Fairhair unifies Norway and clears Scotland and the Western Isles of Vikings
Towers of the North: The Brochs of Iron Age Scotland (3000 BC – 200 AD)
Who built the brochs of ancient Scotland?
Scotland: Rome’s Final Frontier
For three centuries, the Romans tried and failed to conquer the land that became Scotland
878: A Tour of Viking Age Britain
Britain was transformed forever at the height of the Viking Age
Alfred the Great, Guthrum and the Battle of Edington
Alfred the Great defeats the Great Heathen Army and prevents the conquest of England
Not Angles, But Angels: Gregory the Great and the Evangelization of the Anglo-Saxons
The pun that began the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity
Charlemagne’s Saxon Wars
The Frankish conquest of Old Saxony was extremely brutal
Genetics and the Anglo-Saxon Migrations
The Anglo-Saxons didn’t wipe out the Britons
The Battle of Brunanburh (Old English Poem)
The English, Scots, Norse and Britons fight one decisive battle for the future of Britain
A Real Economic Meltdown: The End of Roman Britain
The time that civilization came to an end in Britain
The Martyrdom of King Edmund
Edmund the Martyr, last king of East Anglia, is killed by Ivar the Boneless
The Real Ivar The Boneless
Who was the real Ivar the Boneless?
The Real Björn Ironside
The true story of Björn Ironside’s raids in the Mediterranean
The Real Ragnar Lothbrok
Who was the real Ragnar Lothbrok?
Britain After Rome: The Age of Arthur
King Arthur was a legendary British king who lived in the wake of the collapse of Roman civilization
Post-Roman Britain: Irish and Germanic Invasions
The Britons lost control of their borders in the 5th century
Roman Britain: The Work of Giants Crumbled
The collapse of Roman civilization in Britain
The Nordic Bronze Age
The Indo-European expansion into Northern Europe
Æthelstan Half-King & The Making of England
The blood and soil struggle to create a unified English nation
Danelaw to Denmark: A Viking Journey
The roots of the English trace back across the North Sea
Æthelstan: The First King of the English
Alfred the Great, Æthelstan and the unification of England
1000 AD: A Tour of the Viking World
A look back at when the Vikings dominated Northern Europe
Barbarians: The Saxons
The Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain