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The Story of London

Welcome to The Story of London, a podcast dedicated to telling the history of London as a single narrative tale; from its birth until the present day.Each episode takes us along that tale, a chronicle of the most fascinating and vibrant city on Earth.There is a lot of content in here and each listener can enjoy it in a variety of ways. You can listen to an episode by itself for a slice of life from London’s past; or, if you have a favourite period of time you want to explore, find the era and follow

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Chapter 17- The Heart of Darkness (899-c940)

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2022/12/21

We return after a brief hiatus with a slightly longer look at the start of the 10th century- an episode that tries to reconstruct what London looked like, when EXACTLY London Bridge was rebuilt and more than that… explore the birth of the London mob. A copy of the rough script will be shared to https://imgur.com/gallery/hajiHGM

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33:14

Chapter 16- London’s Dark Twin (894-899)

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2022/11/30

Continuing the tale of the war of 893-897; London faced the prospect of a large Viking fleet upriver that promised to bring war and destruction upon the town… and yet greater threats lay hidden in its future. An episode that takes us to the end of the reign of Alfred the Great. Rough script available here: https://imgur.com/gallery/hajiHGM

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36:51

Chapter 15- The fangs of London (886-894)

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2022/11/24

London was about to discover it was no longer utterly helpless in the face of Viking raids. For the first time the residents of the town were empowered to mobilise as an army… and over the course of a war that is much overlooked these days, suddenly found they had teeth… a copy of the rough script of todays episode is available here https://imgur.com/gallery/hajiHGM

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37:45

Chapter 14- The Chaotic Birth of the Fortress City (886)

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2022/11/16

We finally reach the year the City of London as we know it was created- 886. But the story behind it, and the confusion it seems to generate, are examined in a wild episode involving war, political gestures and Viking’s Vikinging other Vikings.You can follow along the fought script used for this Chapter as well as links to support it here: https://imgur.com/gallery/hajiHGM

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28:48

Chapter 13- Who killed Lundenwic? (Part 2/2) (872-886)

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2022/11/09

The second part of this bumper section, we now examine the actions of the other two candidates for the murder of London- the Viking leader Guthrum and Alfred the Great. Links to the rough script used in this episode (and all the others so far) to be found here: https://imgur.com/gallery/hajiHGM

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35:23

Chapter 12- Who Killed Lundenwic? (Part 1/2) (872-886)

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2022/11/09

A special two part episode, as we try and work out who was responsible, ultimately, for the death of Saxon London as it was. In the first part, we examine the role of the King’s of Mercia and the great Viking Leader, Halfdan… Links to all the scripts found here https://imgur.com/gallery/hajiHGM

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34:19

Chapter 11- The First Occupation (866-872)

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2022/11/02

The Story of London gets to the part where the Viking attacks increase as we explore two things impacting upon it- the start of the reign of Alfred the Great and the Great Heathen Army! And how the Viking’s came to occupy the town… draft script and pictures/maps available on the website.

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35:17

Chapter 10- Survivors… (852-866)

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2022/10/20

The Vikings had raided London… how did the survivors cope and how did this change them? The Story continues looking at both the aftermath and potentially what created the identity of the city of come. A rough script and support materials can be found on the website.

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44:33

Chapter 9- The Violations of London (836-851)

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2022/10/12

An deep dive into both the evolution of the tactics and scale of the early Vikings and their impact upon London; how the small collections of pirates grew and escalated their attacks to the point they could take on huge towns, and accounts of the first two raids upon London in 842 and 851.

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32:32

Chapter 8- Odin’s Fashionistas (Part Two- The dirty...

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2022/10/05

The second part of the special looking closely at the advent of the age of the Vikings; exploring why the residents of London would have seen these guys as highly fashionable merchants and not raiders for a whole generation… and exploring the complexity of the era in some depth.

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24:01

Chapter 7- Odin’s Fashionista’s (Part One- The...

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2022/10/04

The first of a two-part special; it’s 820, and London is part of the powerful and strong Mercian Kingdom; and yet within 15 years the world was to turn upside down, and on the horizon, something scary was looming…

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39:02

Chapter 6- Offa’s Emporium (733- 820)

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2022/09/30

We return to the story of London with the tale of the most powerful of the Mercian King’s of the city, and why London was producing coins with faux Arabic script on them…

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30:24

Chapter 5- A Mercian Market (666- 733 CE)

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2022/09/27

The story continues as we look at how Lundenwic (London) thrived and grew due to it’s relationship with the Kingdom of Mercia; also look at some of the wider implications of the towns story so far.

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25:57

Chapter 4- The Mercian Takeover (627-666 CE)

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2022/09/20

The story of London continues as we look at how the weak kingdom of Mercia ended up taking over the town of Ludenwic, starting a centuries long relationship with the city.

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29:03

Chapter 3- Welcome to Lundenwic (450-627 CE)

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2022/09/13

The story of London continues with the tale of the formation of the Saxon settlement of Lundenwic, the market town built one mile west of the old Roman ruins, and the complicated and obscure changing world around it…

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20:51

Chapter 2- The birth, life and (multiple) deaths of...

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2022/09/08

Welcome back to the second episode of the story of London; this one with added controversy. We do the entire history of Roman London in one episode.Why? Because… reasons…All music courtesy of artlist.io

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21:42

Chapter 1- London BEFORE London

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2022/09/08

Welcome to the Story of London. Our opening episode quickly introduces the scale and size of what we will be trying to do, before getting stuck right into our first part of the story; an account of the region before the Roman’s came. What WAS there before London was built?All music & SPFX courtesy of artlist.io

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