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Professor Ryan Lavelle (University of Winchester, UK) in conversation with Dr Courtnay Konshuh, Assistant Professor in History at the University of Calgary. The second Border Land podcast focuses on the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, one of the key sources related to Ryan's book, Border Land: Frontiers of Early England (Yale University Press, 2026)

Courtnay speaks with Ryan about aspects of the Chronicle (or Chronicles), its history, and its purposes, considering how the Chronicle relates to the edges of the English kingdom(s) before the Norman Conquest.

Quite a lot of academic works chewed over in this episode! Works mentioned and sometimes discussed include:

Daniel Anlezark, Constructing the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2025

Janet Bately, "The Compilation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 60 BC to AD 890: Vocabulary as Evidence," Proceedings of the British Academy, 64 (1978): 93-129

Nicholas Brooks, "Why is the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" about kings?" Anglo-Saxon England, 39 (2011): 43-70

Charles Plummer (eds), Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892-99

Keith Ray and Ian Bapty, Offa's Dyke: Landscape and Hegemony in Eighth-Century Britain. Oxford: Windgather, 2016

Michael Swanton (trans.), The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. Revised edn. London: Phoenix, 2000

Chris Wickham, The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000. London: Penguin, 2010

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Professor Ryan Lavelle (University of Winchester, UK) in conversation with Professor Catherine Clarke, author of A History of England in 25 Poems (Penguin, 2025), and Director of Centre for the History of People, Place and Community, at the Institute of Historical Research, London. The first Border Land podcast gives an opportunity to think about aspects of the edges of things from a broad cultural perspective.

Catherine speaks with Ryan about the ideas behind Ryan's book, Border Land: Frontiers of Early England (Yale University Press, 2026) and many other aspects of early medieval English history and literature, including St Guthlac and Beowulf.

Other reading referred to in the episode: Winfried Rudolf, "The Spiritual Islescape of the Anglo-Saxons", and Catherine Clarke, "Edges and Otherworlds: Imagining Tidal Spaces in Early Medieval Britain," in Sebastian I. Sobecki (ed.). The Sea and Englishness in the Middle Ages: Maritime Narratives, Identity and Culture, Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2011.