
Under New Management: Vikings, Saxons, and the Norman Conquest
The story of William the Conqueror, 1066 and the Battle of Hastings, told from the very beginning: a Viking named Rollo getting handed a chunk of northern France in 911.
Under New Management is a weekly narrative history podcast about the Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Normans, and how England kept changing hands until three peoples became the English. 114 episodes, 911 to 1087: Æthelred the Unready, Queen Emma, Cnut's North Sea empire, Edward the Confessor, Godwine and his sons, Stamford Bridge, Hastings, the Harrying of the North and Domesday Book.
It goes deep (real battle detail, real sources) without being dry. Expect strong opinions, arguments over who had the better claim to the throne, and Words of the Week, where we find out why you raise a cow but eat beef.
New episodes every week. Some adult language and a lot of medieval violence.