Athelstan: England's Greatest Monarch (TRIH ep 122)
937 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook celebrate their podcast-run "World Cup of the Kings and Queens of England" after the surprising victory of Athelstan. The episode is a wide-ranging discussion of Athelstan's life and significance in the early 10th century: his upbringing under Alfredian influence, time at Athelflæd's Mercian court, the military and diplomatic moves that led to the annexation of York, and his crowning at Kingston upon Thames as ruler of Mercians and West Saxons. The host...
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Around 937
- Reign of Alfred the Great (871)
- Holy Roman Empire (962)
- Song dynasty (960)
- Holy Roman Empire founded (962)
- Christianisation of Kievan Rus' (988)
- Founding of the Capetian dynasty (987)
- The Tale of Genji written (1008)
- Treaty of Verdun (843)
- Song invention of gunpowder (950)
- William the Conqueror (1028)