As you might imagine since I’m doing an episode on it, Halloween has a lot of British influence upon it. In fact, the name itself comes from Scotland, where All Saint’s Eve (also known as All Hallow’s Eve) was shortened in the 16th century to Halloween. And the name stuck. But as you have probably gathered, originally the day was simply the day before All Saint’s Day (also known as All Hallows or Hallowmas). And this might come as a shock...

Ok, so we’ve hit 2000 likes on Facebook. So as promised, here’s the bonus episode. We voted for it on, of course, the Facebook site and Druids won. But beware… this is an old episode so there is a lot of “whatnot” in there. So if you’re playing the Whatnot Drinking Game, you might want to use beer… or even near-beer. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Share...

Today we have something pretty exciting. Listener Simon put me in contact with Erin Robinson and Fiona Gale, who are currently working on archaeological sites in Denbighshire north Wales, and they were kind enough to agree to speak to me via Skype. So today we are taking a break from our middle ages cultural discussion, and instead we have an interview on the Heather and Hillforts project… a project which focuses on a number of iron...

This is a recap episode where we’re going to go over the nearly 1 year of podcasts, since it’s been quite a (nearly) year and I wouldn’t blame you if you have forgotten who Governor Scapula was. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Share...

We’re closing out the BC period. Which means we’ve got iron, Celtic culture, and Brochs. Good times! Podcast: Play in new window | Download Share...

Bronze Age Scotland! Podcast: Play in new window | Download Share...