Okay, welcome to the British History Podcast, my name is Jamie.

Now as many of you already know, this show is member-supported.

What I mean by that is that it's entirely made possible through the contribution of members.

And my way of thanking members for being part of this project is to provide little extras

on the members only fee.

For example, I just released the last part of my interview with Dr. Andrew Jones from

New York Viking Center.

In total, there's nearly two hours of in-depth discussion on the Viking settlement of

York, or York, as you know it, and their rather disgusting habits.

For example, in this final installment, we chatted about how they were essentially living

on a gigantic compost heap and dealt with seasonal maggot infestations.

They left that part out of the history channel Viking showed in a day.

Anyway, so that's what's going on over there on the members only fee.

Additionally, Chris and I have been working on producing a series of interactive visual

timelines to help you visualize the scale of time that we're discussing.

Now these timelines are in beta status, so don't expect them to be 100% complete yet.

But I will provide a link to them on our forums if you're interested in checking them

out.

Just go to thebritishhistorypodcast.com, click Get Involved, and click Forums.

And you'll find them under the further research category.

Okay, on with the show.

So it's 568, and things in what will someday become England are still chaotic.

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