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That's Better H-E-L-P. dot com slash History-E-N-G. Oh, Hello and welcome to the history of England episode 20 Anglo-Saxon

England in the 11th century. This week we're going to have a general run at the development of the Anglo-Sax

estate and where it had got to with stuff like government, law, agriculture, trade and all that

such a thing. But before I start into all that fun, that's one other thing to do. You may remember that I had a really

great idea a few weeks ago where I suggested that people might like to email in their questions.

While that generated the same level of enthusiasm as the idea about people contributing

their own podcast to this series.

Still, I did get one question a while ago from Ben, who asked for a summary of why we've ended

up being called the English rather than

the Land of the West Saxons or something like that.

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