England: From the Fall of Rome to the Norman Conquest

The Birth of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms (1x6)

Air date: Jan 28, 2022

Thus far we have seen that thanks to migration and the fusion of Germanic and native British cultures, a coherent population—the Anglo-Saxons—was emerging. The political vacuum left by Rome was filled by a series of smaller kingdoms across England. In this lecture, tour several of these kingdoms and how they came into being.