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Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians: the warrior queen who crushed the Vikings
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The real Uhtred of Bebbanburg
The historical inspirations for The Last Kingdom’s hero
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The Last Kingdom
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Why is the leek associated with Wales?
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Emma of Normandy: not just a two-time queen consort of England
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Alfred the Great: “He was an excellent king, but that’s not the whole story”
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1016: The Danish conquest of England
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The Vikings had never left their homelands?
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The Danelaw: is the ‘realm’ of the Vikings in Anglo-Saxon-era England a place or an idea?
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre: what really happened?
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Hereward the Wake: the Anglo-Saxon rebel who became William the Conqueror’s nemesis
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Who was King Alfred the Great?
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Anglo-Saxon conversion: the coming of the cross (at the point of a sword)
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