Matt Lewis

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1,908 appearances 31 recordings 3 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard today

Matt Lewis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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

If there's a wrong and around, and I'm not saying Anthony's a wrong and around. matched

If there's a wrong and around and the community wanted rid of them. matched

But to the medieval mind, justice was often about your social status. matched

So lots of medieval punishments aren't physically cruel. matched

They tend to be about embarrassing you. matched

So put you in the stocks or the pillory or something like that or make you do penance in the street is about embarrassing you in front of all your neighbours. matched

that was deemed worse than getting whipped a little bit or something like that. matched

The lowering of your social status, the lowering of everyone's opinion of you was far more serious than that. matched

I think... matched

Everyone carries a knife during the medieval period because that's what you eat with. matched

So everyone has a knife on their belt at all times. matched

Yeah. matched

Okay. matched

Everybody carries a knife matched

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Not everyone has a sword. matched

A sword is a weapon of status. matched

They cost an awful lot of money. matched

So if we look at a lot of Anglo-Saxon hordes, Staffordshire Horde, for example, has a whole load of sword hilts in it matched

have been... matched

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