Alright, welcome to the British History Podcast.

My name is Jamie.

Okay, before we get going, I have a quick announcement about the contest.

I'm surprised by how many of you listen in bed or in the bath.

And if you're one of the people who's brave enough to bring an MP3 player into the bath

or you feel the need to have me babble at you before you go to bed, if you're not, you

don't need to send me a photo of you in the bath or in bed to be part of the contest.

I'm not a creeper.

So instead, just share with us how you wish you could be listening to the BHP or your general

experience with the BHP or something like that.

Be creative.

Now this episode is going to have a lot of moving pieces and a lot of aethals, so many

aethals.

And I'm going to do my best to keep reminding you of who I'm talking about and what they

rule over and why they're important.

But this might be an episode that you're going to want to relisten to.

A lot of important things are going to happen and all of the action is going to take place

in just over a decade and it's a very, very messy decade.

Okay, now that I've scared you off, let's bring you up to speed.

So Augustine was now the Archbishop of England.

He had orders to expand into York and London despite their current pagan leadership.

He had King Aethelbert of Kent on his side, but other than that, he was sort of on his

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