Matt Lewis

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

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You will then see later on, so the Anglo-Saxon period ends 1066 with the arrival of the Normans. matched

And the Normans you see very much trying to plug themselves into that Roman heritage, to plant themselves in those old stone buildings wherever they go and associate themselves with an older world than the Anglo-Saxons. matched

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York Minster is a great example that I'm going to talk about because I was there fairly recently. matched

But York Minster, the crypt at York Minster is above ground. matched

And the reason it's above ground is because there is a Roman fortification underneath it. matched

And the Normans didn't want to destroy that and break that up. matched

So they completely redesigned York Minster and made it higher so that they could have an above ground crypt, build it on that Roman footprint and maintain it and keep it. matched

And that's them saying we are the heirs to the Romans. matched

So that's a long way of saying that Anglo-Saxon England is about 450 to 1066. matched

It's vital because everybody is grasping at power. matched

So we quite often think about Anglo-Saxon England in terms of the heptarchy. matched

So those seven kind of big kingdoms. matched

But that's after a long period of distillation. matched

Each one of those kingdoms begins as like 20 kingdoms. matched

smaller places where warlords are emerging and whatever land you can take is yours. matched

And you fall out with neighbours, you fight with neighbours, you make alliances with neighbours to build and grow that kingdom. matched

So Wessex starts off as a huge collection of fragmentary kingdoms and is eventually smashed together until you get one king who is strong enough to control that whole area and begin to call it Wessex. matched

Northumbria up in the northeast is a really great example of this. matched

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