Scotland: Rome’s Final Frontier
For three centuries, the Romans tried and failed to conquer the land that became Scotland
History
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
Danelaw: Viking State in the Heart of England
The Anglo-Saxons fought for centuries to reconquer England from the Danes
Was World War II Necessary?
Adolf Hitler’s foreign policy was a disaster
The Christmas Truce
Peace breaks out on the Western Front on Christmas Eve in 1914
The Untold History of German America
The German Belt stretches from Pennsylvania to Oregon
DW: Frederick and The Empress
Prussia and Austria go to war over the future of Central Europe
New Labour Plotted To Turn Britain Into a Third World Country
New Labour wanted to rub the Right’s nose in diversity
Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism
Swedish absolutism was the opposite of liberal Protestantism
Scandinavia In the Age of Revolution
Sweden used to have an exclusive version of illiberal Protestant nationalism
The Age of Lutheran Orthodoxy
Religious freedom came to Lutheran Europe in the 19th century
South Africa In 1984
A look back at South Africa in the 1980s
Masters of the Universe
Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman and the birth of neoliberalism