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AWA331 - What effect did the Hunnic invasions into Western Europe have on Britain?

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Society & Culture, Greece, Warfare, Ancient, Rome, History, Military

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🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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JackSarge poses this question for Murray. What effect did the Hunnic invasions into Western Europe have on Britain? Did Attila send emissaries to Britain or make any demands of it?

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0:00.0

Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of ancient warfare answers with me, Murray.

0:09.0

Your 10-minute weekly fix of ancient warfare to take you away from all those annoying, pesky, modern world troubles and worries.

0:18.0

Let me do that for you by worrying and troubling about ancient

0:21.3

warfare. What we do here, of course, is we get questions from viewers, readers and listeners,

0:27.7

and I attempt to answer them at the best of my ability, make no claims, as to what that is.

0:34.0

And you, of course, can ask us a question, and however you can find it, you can write me an email, you can comment on a previous podcast or video on YouTube.

0:43.2

You can send us a postcard.

0:45.2

Actually, it's been a while since I received a postcard, so please send a postcard.

0:49.1

And I believe there's been a couple lost in the mail.

0:52.0

Someone said they sent one from Portugal, which has never turned up.

0:54.5

I don't know who got that or whether they've attempted to answer it.

0:57.7

Anyway, today's question is from Jack, Jack Sarge.

1:01.0

He is asking me in a question which is fascinating, and I'll get to it in a second,

1:05.8

which is, of course, about the Huns.

1:09.2

Will I be able to answer this in 10 minutes? This is always the question.

1:12.2

What effect did the Hunnic invasions into Western Europe have on Britain? Did Attila send

1:17.6

emissaries to Britain or make any demands of it? Right. Ooh, interesting. Now, emissaries to

1:25.0

Britain, we're not sure, but I'll get to that because there could be something which is a problem.

1:30.1

Now, in this case, it's interesting because this was a comment on a previous podcast about the siege of nasis,

1:37.5

and it actually had a comment in reply to the question talking about a blog, which I thought I'd bring up,

1:44.0

and this is

1:44.6

Memo from Essex, brought up an academic historian Caitlin Green, who has a blog about this,

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