Videos, Lectures, Online Courses & Podcasts
Documentaries and Videos
- Crash Course World History, episode 14: "The Dark Ages... How Dark Were They, Really?," by popular young adult author John Green
- Seven Ages of Britain, episode 4: "The Fourth Age, 410-1066 A.D.," by historian, author, and broadcaster Bettany Hughes
- BBC Education, "Anglo-Saxons"*: provides eight learner guides and eight classroom videos on the early medieval English
Podcasts
- In Our Time podcast: Beowulf: presented by broadcaster and author Melvyn Bragg, with internationally recognized medievalists Laura Ashe, Clare Lees, and Andy Orchard
- Medieval Warfare Magazine: The Podcast: see especially episode 2, "Norse Raiders, and episode 24, "Æthelred the Unready and the Anglo-Saxon Military"
- The History of England Podcast: Anglo-Saxon England*
- University of Oxford podcasts: try searching for terms "Old English," "Anglo-Saxon,"* or "medieval English"
Open Yale Courses
- Offers a free, open-access course on "The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000," taught by Paul Freedman
- See especially lecture 12, "Britain and Ireland" and lecture 22, "Vikings/The European Prospect"
