{"id":20174,"date":"2022-11-29T10:38:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T09:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=220515"},"modified":"2022-11-29T12:12:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T11:12:09","slug":"dark-age-bullies-forgotten-kingdoms-busting-early-medieval-myths","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/dark-age-bullies-forgotten-kingdoms-busting-early-medieval-myths\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Age bullies &#038; forgotten kingdoms: busting early medieval myths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Dr David Musgrove\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Tuesday, 29 November 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>The traditional story that\u2019s told about Britain from the end of the Roman period through to the arrival of the Vikings is one of coalescing kingdoms, leading inexorably towards the rise of Wessex as the last man standing. However, the real story is much more complicated, as Thomas Williams tells David Musgrove in this new episode.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-220515-1&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\/11\/Darkageslostrealms-27ae190.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/11\/Darkageslostrealms-27ae190.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/11\/Darkageslostrealms-27ae190.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Thomas Williams is the author of <em>Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings<\/em> (William Collins, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/lost-realms-histories-of-britain-from-the-romans-to-the-vikings\/9780008171964&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/HEROIC-AGE-HB\/dp\/0008171963\/?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/lost-realms\/thomas-williams\/9780008171964&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Waterstones<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dr David Musgrove Published: Tuesday, 29 November 2022 at 12:00 am The traditional story that\u2019s told about Britain from the end of the Roman period through to the arrival of the Vikings is one of coalescing kingdoms, leading inexorably towards the rise of Wessex as the last man standing. 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