Episode 48: Northumbria, Powys, Mercia, and Gwynedd the Game of Thrones

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Roman Britain Episode 7 - Britannia Divisa

Because we have so little written history it might seem that Britain was relatively static in the Iron Age. Britain, however, was not frozen in time. It was dynamic. And that dynamism, that competition between kingdoms and elites, created the conditions that made Roman interventi ...  Show more

Episode 260 - Daughters of Cambria: The Welsh Women’s Movement

For centuries, the history of Wales was written as a history of men—of coal miners, ironmasters, and preachers. But by the 1880s, a quiet revolution was brewing in the valleys and coastal towns. Welsh women were no longer content to be the "angels of the hearth." Follow us on soc ...  Show more

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