Bygone Worlds: The Fascinating History of How We Used to Live
Bygone Worlds is history that pulls you completely out of your modern life and immerses you in another time and place. Through rich and meditative storytelling that vividly appeals to all your senses, you’ll travel from the kitchens of Elizabethan England where Turnspit Dogs helped cook meals to the Silk Road where two monks broke China’s centuries long monopoly on silk to the shores of America where the US Life Saving Service rescued over 170,000 people before the Coast Guard was even invented. While other history podcasts focus on wars and famous figures, we illuminate the captivating corners of daily life you've probably never heard about. Whether you listen at bedtime or during your day, kids and adults can step back in time to learn about lives you never knew existed and feel like you lived them.
Bygone Worlds: The Fascinating History of How We Used to Live
Frankpledge: The System Where You Pay For Others' Crimes
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In medieval England, your neighbors' crimes were your problem. Literally. Twice a year, every man in the village gathered in the manor yard, and if anyone in your group had broken the law or left the village without permission, or done anything else that displeased the crown - everyone paid. The whole group. Split evenly. Whether you knew anything about it or not.
This was frankpledge. It was ruthless and it was ingenious and it lasted three hundred years.
What killed it was an event so catastrophic that it emptied entire villages and accidentally gave the survivors something frankpledge was specifically designed to prevent them from having.