In Episode 2 of 20 Minute Monarch, Pete and Chris take a tidy break-time tour of Edward the Elder’s life and reign. We look at how Edward inherited a fragile kingdom from Alfred, beat back internal rivals, worked with powerful regional leaders (including his sister Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians), and pushed back the Danish-controlled Danelaw. Along the way we unpack the campaigns, the burh network and frontier policy, family politics that mattered for succession, and why Edward is an important — sometimes underrated — link between Alfred and the first truly all-English king, Æthelstan.

Edward the Elder, Edward 899–924, Anglo-Saxon kings, Æthelstan precursor, Danelaw reconquest, burhs, Æthelflæd, succession after Alfred, early medieval England podcast, 20 Minute Monarch

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