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The big ideas which form the intellectual agenda of our age are illuminated by some of the best minds. Melvyn Bragg and three guests investigate the history of ideas and debate their application in modern life. |
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Courtesy of Getty archive
Find out more about this subject by using our special research page.
ALFRED AND THE BATTLE OF EDINGTON
The Battle of Edington in 878 is taken by many to be the great founding Battle of England. It is the conflict in which Alfred, King of Wessex, came back from an impossible position to defeat the Vikings and launch a grand project to establish a new entity of Englishness, what he called the 'Anglecynn' in the South of the island of Britain.
How did Alfred manage to defeat the Vikings when he had been so thoroughly routed? What motivated his project to fashion Englishness? And without Edington, would there be no England?
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Richard Gameson, Reader in Medieval History at the University of Kent at Canterbury
Sarah Foot, Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Sheffield
John Hines, Professor in the School of History and Archaeology at Cardiff University
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