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Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

I'm Ellie Cawthorne. Today we've got a conversation with the leading early medieval historian Professor Pauline Stafford, talking about the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. Asking the questions is our

content director, David Musgrove. Today I'm delighted to be talking to Professor Pauline Stafford, who was chair of medieval history at the University of Liverpool and is now Professor Emerita there.

She's a leading authority on the history of women and gender and on politics, more generally, in England from the 8th to the early 12th centuries.

Her latest book is just out with Oxford University Press, and it's absolutely fascinating. It's called After Alfred Anglo-Saxon Chronicles and Chronicles, 900 to 1150. And that's what we're chatting about today. So welcome, Pauline. Thank you very much for joining us on the podcast. Hi. Nice to be there, Dave. Good. Okay, so we've got lots of questions, We've talked about it a bit in advance, and maybe I've got too many questions. So we will see how we go, but it's such a fascinating subject. So the first question, your book title references the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. So can you just introduce us to those? What actually are the Anglo-Saxon chronicles?

Right. Well, they're a group of chronicles. They're all in the form of annals. They're all written in the Old English language, and they were written between the end of the 9th and the

middle of the 12th century. There are seven of them surviving, more or less, and I say more or less, because one of them was very badly burnt in the cotton fire in the early 18th century, so we've just got scraps of that.

And we've got a fragment of another.

And we also know that there are some lost chronicles, three or four certainly.

They're anonymous.

Nobody signed them. Nobody claimed authorship.

They're written at different times and places, but there's no statement about where they were

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