Hello and welcome to this interview where I should be talking with returning guest, Tom Roussel. How are you?

Not bad, thanks, Bose. Good to be back.

Yeah, no, great to have you back. Last time we talked about much more prehistory or sort of like bell beakers and Iron Age and that sort of thing with Silbury Hill.

So I thought this time we could skip out the Romans because what did they ever do for us?

Yeah. And start talking about the,

I think, try and pick your brain a bit about the Anglo-Saxons. That's the topic I love. So,

everything from sort of 410, when the Romans left, through to 1066. Yeah. Just sort of a bit of an

overview, an hour, an hour and a half on that. And hopefully, hopefully it'll be enjoyable for people out there.

Yeah, whatever you want to know about, I'll try and talk about as much as I can.

It's a topic I love, but I focus on specifically, like my areas of study for the Anglo-Saxies

have mostly been to do with like the culture, the religions, the, like, you know, paganism

and Christianity, the social structure and the general, like, Germanic ways of being like

how they treated their lords, how they organized the land and how they made their art, where their art originates, and this kind of thing,

rather than the dates that the different Anglo-Saxon kingdoms went to war with one another or things like that.

I know a bit about that, but that's like many people who are historians, like that would be their focus,

and they'd say, oh yeah, well, when Offa did this and that and whatever, but it's not the kind of history that is most interesting

to me. Okay, cool. Well, I thought I'd go through it sort of vaguely chronologically and just

wherever the conversation takes us. Yeah, because my understanding is much more that, sort of classical, much more classical

sort of history, what kings, what dates, what kingdoms overtook, what other kings.

So hopefully between us.

Yeah, we've got a more comprehensive picture then.

You can pick up where I'm weak.

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