Who the heck are the "Anglo-Saxons," and why are Americans getting all lathered up about "Anglo-Saxon institutions"? Find out where the Anglo-Saxon myth came from and how over the past three hundred years it's been used to justify Parliamentary supremacy, the Rhodes Scholarship, the American entry into World War I, immigration restrictions, and college admission quotas. You never knew you were suffering under the Norman yoke, but now you do.
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Image: Statue of King Alfred, Winchester
Previous lectures about the original Anglo-Saxons:
-on Dark Age Britain: https://soundcloud.com/historiansplaining/crossing-the-water-britain-in-the-dark-age
-on Anglo-Saxon England and the Vikings: https://soundcloud.com/historiansplaining/anglo-saxon-england-and-the-vikings-757-1066
-on the Sutton Hoo treasure: https://soundcloud.com/historiansplaining/doorways-in-time-the-great-archaeological-finds-1-the-sutton-hoo-treasure
Suggested further reading:
-Dino Buenviaje, "The Yanks are Coming Over There," https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5cc4h9md;
-Paul Kramer, "Empires, Exceptions, and Anglo-Saxons," http://archive.oah.org/special-issues/teaching/2002_03/article.html
