Welcome to the British History Podcast.

My name is Jamie and this is episode 227, Alfred's War for the Mind.

This show is ad-free to the member support and is a way of thanking members for keeping

the show independent.

I offer members only content including extra episodes and rough transcripts.

You can get instant access to all the members extras by signing up for membership at the

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And not even a fancy latte, like the one with shots of hazelnut or with a cinnamon

dulce whip, or you know that one made from beans roasted in unicorn blood.

Just a regular latte, that's how cheap membership is.

And thank you very much to Jennifer, Paul and John for signing up already.

And a big thank you to Misha and another member who'd prefer to stay anonymous, who in

the spirit of the holidays paid for several gift memberships and asked me to give them

to members of the community who had to cancel due to financial difficulties.

This community will never cease to amaze and inspire me.

And following in your example, Z and I decided to do something similar for even more members.

So thank you for that.

Oh, and Londoners, we're going to be doing a meet up in London next month.

Current plans are that we're going to do it on January 21st, that's a Saturday.

So stay tuned for further details.

And now on with a show.

The last episode ended with an account by Ethelweird, which told us that after the arrival of Athelnaf,

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