Excellent article, Louise.
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Thanks, Elaine!
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This is great, Louise! I’ve been hesitant to watch it because I suspected it would be alienating to be wary of the nostalgia while everyone was raving about it. Now I feel like I can watch it. Thank you for writing this!
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I managed somehow to enjoy it despite my growing scepticism ... glad you enjoyed my thought bubble!
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I only watched half of it. It made me want to research what they had found, and why it was so important. Thank you for this review.
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The Sutton Hoo burial and grave goods are mind-blowing.. No time for me to talk about it here, or early England (just the movie's handling of it). The film does a good job of recapturing the excitement of uncovering it.
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Thank you for writing this piece. It was exactly my own feelings watching the movie. Everything around the actual direction and filmography revolving the Anglo-Saxon contra Scandinavian angle was quite... disturbing
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Youre welcome! Glad I'm not alone in seeing this. I am being schooled roundly by various gents in my email inbox.

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Really interesting piece. I saw the 'culture under threat' theme in the narrower context of the coming war and fear of annihilation. In that context I thought May's appeal for future generations wasn't about the preservation of one heritage so much as civilisation as a whole.
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Interesting though that the clincher for them as to the Anglo-Saxons being cultured & not "Dark Ages savages" was the presence of a Merovingian Tremissis, a coin either from or copied from coins used in what is now France & Germany, rather than the fine inlaid garnet jewellery.
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It's the fact of them having & using money, and being involved in international trade with Europe that was the big deal, as opposed to being an isolationist nation of hermits cut off from the rest of the world. Not sure that's so pro-Brexit really.
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