Hanging with History
The first season focuses on the origins of the Industrial Revolution or the Great Enrichment, we go deep into history to gain enough background knowledge to actually understand the various theories of the origins of the Great Enrichment. Eventually we learn that we also need to know how the miracle was consolidated, as the many other close approaches to the Industrial Revolution failed.A kwirky style, but intellectually ambitious with the goal of understanding history well enough to understand the miracle that happened that one time. It's gonna be a long series.
Hanging with History
5. Thor's Hammer and Fork; Vikings Part 2
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Harald Hansen
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Season 1
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Episode 5
2nd of 6 episode Viking story arc. These have been very popular. We take a very historical, but unconventionally pro-Viking view. About this episode we introduce the idea that the Vikings were just more effective man-for-man than the Anglo-Saxons of the time, with a few exceptions. There is a little pointless grumpiness, but hey we are human over here.
Discussion of the Viking Raids in England, France and Frisia before the Great Heathen Army period. Charlemagne, Alcuin and and other European reactions, the founding of Normandy. With digressions on the St. Brice's Day massacre and the great Forkbeard.
The Vikings conquered England?
A Dragonslayer episode