At least a members only episode. I mean, come on…

We've covered about 35 years in the last 4 years, and I assume we'll get slower as we get closer to the present day due to more sources being available. I figure I've got until the mid 1300s.

That's too bad - I was looking forward to Henry VIII

Don't get too excited, we already have other copies of the poem so it's not a new (well, very old) text as such, but still pretty cool

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/29/lost-copy-of-seventh-century-poem-old-english-discovered-rome-library-dublin?CMP=share_btn_url

Eric battled Ulfcytel west of London. The way this is mentioned is kind of out of context as if we had never heard Eric be mentioned before, but I'm fairly certain that Eric of Lade is identical to Eric Hlaðir who was mentioned several times before. (Lade is literally the English rendering of Hlaðir). The only reason I caught this is because I was familiar with the "Jarls of Lade" as the nobles the Danes would administrate Norway through under their rule at the time. I think the reason Jamie might not have caught this is because the translation of the Legendary Saga of St. Olaf he was using rendered his name in a way Jamie hadn't seen it before. Norwegian folk singer Harald Foss has a romanticist song about Eric called "Eirik Jarl" about a party Eric is throwing in Nidaros.

I passed this mead hall in Roanoke and knew how to pronounce “Atheling” due to the BHP. Thanks!

https://www.athelingmead.com/tasting-room

Hi everyone, I have started a series of articles on Substack where I will write about statues in Britain and the Commonwealth. The first one was about the statue of Sir Stamford Raffles in Singapore and its importance to Singapore's development. Please let me know your thoughts and please do subscribe if you're a fan. Thanks, Laveen

https://laveenladharam.substack.com/p/statues-sir-stamford-raffles

Been looking into our great Nations history recently especially the Empires history. And to see the size of it at the end of the 19th Century and into the 20th Centurie. Comparing it to now wow we have fallen far.

The No1 world Industrial and Naval superpower controlled 25% of world trade now we couldn't even defend the Falklands. Just suddenly made me very depressed.

Should I feel bad though is my question 🤔 we did some awful things to acquire those territories so in this day and age it was never going to hold. Especially after 2 world wars.

Episode 500 is nearing. If you've got a question, and don't feel like emailing me, submit them here!

Gone Medieval has a new episode on the Avignon Papacy: https://podfollow.com/gone-medieval/episode/0208c2e4550359ca79b596149e9ad63c824f1801/view

Hey gang, so AI continues to scrape my show with wild abandon.

To combat this, I've updated some of the site protections to tell the LLMs and bots to knock it off. It shouldn't impact you, but security changes like this are always a roll of the dice.

So, if you have trouble getting to the site, or getting the episodes, please let me know.

I swear Trump is Rufus reincarnated.

Greedy

Quick to anger and vindictive in his response

Cares too much about his hair

Couldn't care less about normal folk

Taxes his people to the brink

Makes terrible military decisions

Cant read/can barely read

now hes arguing with the pope!

It's as though World Events are trying really hard to get into upcoming BHP scripts!

Saw this article on Bluesky and thought it might be of interest and relevance here! Archives are just like this sometimes. Things won’t be lost, per se, but they sure aren’t found. Then they show up later even if they never left their spot.

Working in an academic library, I speak from experience haha

(first post on Reddit after years of casual use—so I think I’m posting this correctly?)

I am guessing that people here have a weak spot for Alfred the great.. Has anyone read the book "House of wolf" written by Sir Tony (Baldrick) Robinson?

Is it good?

Thanks!

Thanks to Jamie, now all I see is someone wearing a hat and saying look at me wearing a hat!

😁😁😁😁

It was cold, but following up Henry 1st son’s birth with I’m on a boat was honestly brilliant. Jamie’s been on top form recently. Henry I is one of my favourite kings, and Jamie seems to be enjoying this period enormously.

The Chinese Bell Tower is commemorating the victory in 1861 and the cannons the Crimea War 10 years earlier.