Matt Lewis

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1,437 appearances 30 recordings 3 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 4d ago

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After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal · The Bloodiest Anglo Saxon Royal Murders · 24 Sep 2026 podcast

Wherever a man does something wrong, they're looking for a woman to blame for that happening. matched

And that's not so much happening during this period, but it definitely becomes a theme matched

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And that's why I think we then get a history that looks back and sees she-wolves everywhere and tries to position women as being the driving forces behind things like this. matched

No, I mean, it's one of those things that historians are dreadful quite often for saying, this was a seismic turning point. matched

huge moment in history. matched

But 1066 and the Norman invasion really is one of those matched

where everything changes in England. matched

And you've gone from this, the Anglo-Saxon period is quite often viewed as, matched

through rose-tinted spectacles. matched

And we need to remember that it's violent matched

difficult. matched

And there's just a monetary price for killing people. matched

There were reasons that they did that, but nevertheless, that doesn't make it good. matched

But it does very quickly become viewed as this period of communal responsibility, of a different form, a gentler form of law in England. matched

Because the Normans arrive and enforce their will now with a much harsher, matched

steel fist, they're building castles everywhere matched

suppress the local population. matched

And again, what we had in 450, I guess, with the arrival of the Angles, Saxons and the Jutes, you've got this minority now, minority elite trying to impose themselves on a majority. matched

And they're very keen to import Norman law, French law and French ways of doing things. matched

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