{"id":14687,"date":"2022-05-27T12:07:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T10:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=208890"},"modified":"2022-05-27T15:40:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T13:40:08","slug":"alice-roberts-on-unearthing-the-romans-vikings-anglo-saxons","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/alice-roberts-on-unearthing-the-romans-vikings-anglo-saxons\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice Roberts on unearthing the Romans, Vikings &amp; Anglo-Saxons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Emily Briffett\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 27 May 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p><span style=\"&quot;font-style:\" inherit=\"\" font-weight:=\"\">Professor Alice Roberts explores how cutting-edge developments in archaeology and genetic science can broaden our understanding of what happened in Britain between the first and tenth centuries AD. Through exploring the funerary sites of Romans, Vikings and Anglo-Saxons, she explains to Emily Briffett what we can learn about life and death at this time.<\/span><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-208890-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/05\/Aliceroberts-9af135d.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/05\/Aliceroberts-9af135d.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/05\/Aliceroberts-9af135d.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong><span style=\"&quot;font-style:\" inherit=\"\">Alice Roberts is the author of <\/span><em>Buried: An Alternative History of the First Millennium in Britain<\/em> (Simon &amp; Schuster, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/buried-an-alternative-history-of-the-first-millennium-in-britain\/9781398510036&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Buried-alternative-history-millennium-Britain-ebook\/dp\/B09DZ3ZVK1?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Buy now on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/buried\/alice-roberts\/9781398510036&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Waterstones<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emily Briffett Published: Friday, 27 May 2022 at 12:00 am Professor Alice Roberts explores how cutting-edge developments in archaeology and genetic science can broaden our understanding of what happened in Britain between the first and tenth centuries AD. 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