205 – Saint Edmund the Martyr

Last week we covered the events of 869. The situation was dire. We have at least one dead Anglo Saxon king, two Anglo Saxon kingdoms that were now under the thumb of the Danes, and as far as the record tells us, everyone else was just keeping their heads down. They may have taken ...  Show more

Here is part two to our story of religion and religious life at the age of the Great Heathen Army and the Danish invasion of Britain. Last episode, I told you about how the stories we’re often told – of violent atrocities committed against Christian spaces and against Christendom ...  Show more

Married off at the age of 14 in her mother’s very own Game of Thrones, Austrian-born Marie Antoinette finds herself in a foreign country, shackled to the teenage future King of France - who's more interested in lock-making than love. How are they to produce an heir? Then in 1774, ...  Show more

We mostly remember Henry VIII’s six wives because of their fate at the hands of history’s most notorious ex. But there’s so much more to them than divorce, death and beheadings. 

Henry’s first wife, Catherine of Aragon, was a Spanish princess who grew up ...

Faites un don et recevez un cadeau :  http://don.storiavoce.com/ Dans l'Angleterre du XVIe siècle, Henri VIII, héritier des Tudor, règne en maître sur son royaume comme sur sa vie maritale. Il annule son premier mariage avec Catherine d’Aragon, fautive de n’avoir pas engendré un h ...  Show more

The story of Prince Aemon the Dragonknight was too big for us to fit in one episode, but he wasn't too big for the cage that House Wyl put him in... which is where we left you hanging, with Aemon hanging over that pit of vipers. In this episode we discuss his rescue, and his r ...