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The Story of London
Welcome to The Story of London, a podcast dedicated to telling the history of London as a single narrative tale; from its birth until the present day. Each episode takes us along that tale, a chronicle of the most fascinating and vibrant city on Earth. There is a lot of content in here and each listener can enjoy it in a variety of ways. You can listen to an episode by itself for a slice of life from London’s past; or, if you have a favourite period of time you want to explore, find the era and follow the Chapters in that section. Or maybe you want to join us on the grand journey, starting at...
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Chapter 8- Odin’s Fashionistas (Part Two- The dirty secret of the early Vikings) (820-835) 05.10.2022 32:32
The second part of the special looking closely at the advent of the age of the Vikings; exploring why the residents of London would have seen these guys as highly fashionable merchants and not raiders for a whole generation… and exploring the complexity of the era in some depth. Cover includes detail from the Replica of Harald’s Stone, National Museum of Denmark.
Chapter 7- Odin’s Fashionista’s (Part One- The decline of Mercia) (820-835) 04.10.2022 24:01
The first of a two-part special; it’s 820, and London is part of the powerful and strong Mercian Kingdom; and yet within 15 years the world was to turn upside down, and on the horizon, something scary was looming… Cover includes detail from a purse lid from Sutton Hoo burial site.
Chapter 6- Offa’s Emporium (733- 820) 30.09.2022 39:02
We return to the story of London with the tale of the most powerful of the Mercian King’s of the city, and why London was producing coins with faux Arabic script on them… Cover includes detail from the fresco of Prince (future Caliph) Walid bin Yazid; c. 734 CE
Chapter 5- A Mercian Market (666- 733 CE) 27.09.2022 30:24
The story continues as we look at how Lundenwic (London) thrived and grew due to it’s relationship with the Kingdom of Mercia; we also look at some of the wider implications of the towns story so far. Cover includes image from ‘Codex Amiatinus’, c 715, Northumbria.
Chapter 4- The Mercian Takeover (627-666 CE) 20.09.2022 25:57
The story of London continues as we look at how the weak kingdom of Mercia ended up taking over the town of Lundenwic, starting a centuries long relationship with the city. Cover art includes detail of the Codex Amiatinus, c. 716, Northumbria.
Chapter 3- Welcome to Lundenwic (450-627 CE) 13.09.2022 29:03
The story of London continues with the tale of the formation of the Saxon settlement of Lundenwic, the market town built one mile west of the old Roman ruins, and the complicated and obscure changing world around it…
Chapter 2- The birth, life and (multiple) deaths of Londinium (47CE-450CE) 08.09.2022 20:51
Welcome back to the second episode of the story of London; this one with added controversy. We do the entire history of Roman London in one episode. Why? Because… reasons… All music courtesy of artlist.io
Chapter 1- London BEFORE London 08.09.2022 24:38
Welcome to the Story of London. Our opening episode quickly introduces the scale and size of what we will be trying to do, before getting stuck right into our first part of the story; an account of the region before the Roman’s came. What WAS there before London was built? All music & SPFX courtesy of artlist.io
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