An Introduction to Anglo Saxon England | British History Documentary

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Welcome to the British History Patreon Quarterly Documentary and welcome to Anglo Saxon England!

The period between the retreat of the Roman Empire, in AD410, and the Norman Conquest in 1066, a period of six and a half centuries, is as fascinating as it is elusive.

With the retreat of the Romans and the societal and economic collapse that followed, record keeping became severely reduced.

However, it is during this time that the many tribes and kingdoms of Briton split, merged, resplit and combined again to form into the vision held by Alfred the Great for a combined land of the Angels, an Aengerland, England.

In this introduction to Anglo Saxon England I will take you from the time the Romans left to the coming of William of Normandy. It is a time of invasion, immigration, violence and huge economic, religious and societal change.
From the invited invasion of the Anglo Saxons by the desperate Britons to the coming of the Danes and going from a Danish King of England to a total take over by the Normans.

Sources and Further Reading
Books:
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England by Marc Morris. Penguin, 2021

A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons: Brief Histories
By Geoffrey Hindley. Robinson, 2006.

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This was really informative its the period of the monarchy I always find confusing but you've really helped me understand it a lot better thanks as always Philippa

ChewingGums
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Lucid and authoritative - just the Introduction I was looking for. Liked and Subscribed. : )

KennethHall-tphw
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3:35 the 1 thing the Scot’s always love to ignore lol.
The entire reason their land was invaded was because of their raids in the first place

rahjah
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Interesting how, even though it's on the map and the former name of the New Forest (Ntene - Jutish - Forest) people only mostly mention Kent or the Isle of Wight as lands settled by them but they actually held a fair bit of Southern Hampshire as well.

hckeyd
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Love this! You made a confusing time very understandable

EriAug
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"He then married one of his sisters."

"to the Viking ruler of Yorvik."

robinsinpost
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Roman soldiers weren’t mostly from Rome, they were from all over the Roman Empire and locals were eventually brought in. Locals prior wouldn’t be kitted out with swords, shields and other armor. The average person before or after wouldn’t have formal armor. They’d have axes, staffs, and other practical tools for defense.

silverhooligan
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Fantastic Philippa! Really enjoyed this

femmygerritzen
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Ive never really understood much about this period so thank you for a great explanation . As usual nothing in our history is nice and simple, lots of names that take a while to sink in 😂

silkwormandcottontails
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Damn… you jumped three centuries between Hengist and Horsa and great fred.

BSdetected
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It's Anglo Saxons that are criticised for later empire building and not Normans, probable as the kingdom is Anglo Saxon. although the Ruling Class are not Anglo Saxon.

roberttreborable
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Very annoying that you forget to mention the Frisians.
Old english and old frisian being the most equal languages and Frisians being the closest to England.

jacquelinevanderkooij
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Very clearly done. I had no idea that the Romans prohibited Britons from owning weapons. It does kind of make our Second Amendment a bit more understandable. Lordy knows I am not a crazy gun nut though. But it makes it more clear why.

scottscottsdale
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And you forgot to name Edgar as a succesor to Edward the confessor.
First choice, not crowned.

jacquelinevanderkooij
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80 % of my own ancestry is of that "ethnic element", and these WERE " the Dark Ages" ... i.e., stupid Christian religiosity, illiteracy, ignorance, and gratuitous violence. But all of this pertained to most of Europe LOL.

anothergodlessheathen
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Angles and Saxons were Germans.
They were not British.
Normans were French.
They were not British.

minos
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She is wrong - they didn't come from Germany. It didn't exist yet 😉

Bjowolf
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Less than 30 seconds in up pops an advert & its time for me to go. Bye.

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