This is really good, and apart from a few grisly sound effects is pretty accessible for GCSE students, I think. It’s the story, with some excellent historians chiming in with context. #HistoryTeacher #VikingExpansion #GCSE podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
If you’re teaching Viking Expansion, this episode with Eleanor Barraclough explains the practicalities of Viking beliefs and how historians have built the picture using sagas and material culture. #historyteacher #GCSE #VikingExpansion podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a... Barraclough is so good!
Gone Medieval this week is easy to follow history of the Vikings in the east. It very clearly explains the differences, reasons for and significance of expansion to the east. I reckon this could be used in lessons and stuff. #historyteacher #VikingExpansion podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...
I’ve started this one and am enjoying it so far, but I need to concentrate properly, which was not my mood today. #historyteacher #VikingExpansion
The Bone Chests by Cat Jarman is excellent for Viking kings and for contextualising Anglo-Saxon monarchs, and it’s a great story for material culture (River Kings-style *and* cathedral nerdiness? Yes please!) #historyteacher #VikingExpansion
I’m 16 pages in and already I want to do a new lesson about the St Brice’s Day massacre. Roberts uses Æthelred’s 1004 charter to rebuild Oxford to show that the ‘othering’ of people stretches back to the origins of England. #historyteacher #VikingExpansion
There’s an excellent bit about the Lloyd’s Bank coprolite on p177 (we all know it’s the bit kids remember most from the Jorvik case study)
‘The human responsible for bringing this poo into the world probably thought that this was an end to it. Little did they know…’ #historyteacher #VikingExpansion
Churches were often built close to pagan sites of worship/sacrifice:
1. Eased transition by allowing converts to come to their traditional place of worship
2. Christians could make sure ‘the weeds of paganism’ didn’t start springing up again. #historyteacher #VikingExpansion
Cut your nails regularly, Vikings. Naglfar (a ship made of the finger- and toenails of dead people) is the ship that a giant named Hrym, or perhaps Loki himself, sailed into Ragnarok for the final battle. 🤢 #VikingExpansion #historyteacher
Something I hadn’t considered: Viking ship finds (eg at Roskilde fjord, or burials) tell us lots about ship technology, but not about what the experience was actually like on board. They’re open vessels: you’d have been soaked through, or sunburnt (or both) #historyteacher #VikingExpansion
Barraclough makes a point of reminding the reader that although the raiders were men, the ones waiting at home for them, just off the edges of the well-known stories, were women. #historyteacher #VikingExpansion
Another little plug for this excellent tome - there’s a great paragraph about the different geographies of the 3 Viking nations on p15 (aka, spec point 1) #historyteacher #VikingExpansion
#VikingExpansion teachers, this is a nice little overview of finds at/near Repton, and because it’s BBC it’s accessible language. #OCR #historyteacher Digs suggest leafy village once saw Viking horrors www.bbc.com/news/article...
