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Sep 11, 2026
Sam BiltonPANELIST
in the first course.
Sam BiltonPANELIST
And to get us in the mood, I had a chat with Kevin Booth, head curator of collections at English Heritage, about the unveiling of Conquest's Man and what his skeleton can tell us about people living in Britain and their lives at the time of the Norman Conquest.
Sam BiltonPANELIST
I'm looking at a portrait of a man on the English Heritage website.
Sam BiltonPANELIST
He has receding, short grey hair, soft grey-green eyes and a lined but kindly looking face.
Sam BiltonPANELIST
Just an ordinary middle-aged bloke, really, that you could easily walk past on any street in Britain.
Sam BiltonPANELIST
Except this is no ordinary man.
Sam BiltonPANELIST
The image staring back at me intently is Conquest Man, a meticulously reconstructed visage based on a 1,000-year-old skeleton found at the Church of St Peter's in Barton-on-Humber.
Sam BiltonPANELIST
The face of Conquest Man has been revealed thanks to a research project combining the expertise of English Heritage, Historic England, the Crick Institute, the British Geological Survey, the University of Southampton, Muvis and Facelab.
Elizabeth DuttonHOST
Yeah.
Elizabeth DuttonHOST
And so experts at the British Museum and English Heritage wound up looking at it.
Elizabeth DuttonHOST
They decided, well, the box isn't ancient, but you know that wood fragment inside might be genuine.
Elizabeth DuttonHOST
Now, we've talked about how many shards of the true cross are floating around out there.
Amy MatthewsHOST
Hello, I'm Amy Matthews and thanks for downloading the English Heritage podcast.
Amy MatthewsHOST
You can probably hear that I'm not in a studio.
Amy MatthewsHOST
In fact, I'm not inside at all.
Amy MatthewsHOST
So come with me as I head down the hill to begin our sensory journey into the past.
Amy MatthewsHOST
I'm at the fort entrance with two people who are particularly well-placed to help us understand what life was like here in the AD 1, 2 and 300s.
Amy MatthewsHOST
English heritage curator of history and great friend of the podcast, Andrew Roberts.
Amy MatthewsHOST
How are you, Andrew? It's so nice to have you back.
Amy MatthewsHOST
We're not in a studio anymore.
Harvey JohnsonHOST
and so approached the Berry Society.
Harvey JohnsonHOST
Thankfully, as a coordinator of the Berry Society Blue Plaque Scheme back in 2021, sorry, back in 2012, I was able to get permission from St Edmundsbury Council and English Heritage for a blue plaque in her memory, one of seven the Berry Society put up that same year, for Clive, to which she was very grateful.
Sue Cunningham-SnellHOST
And the last letter in this section is, I sit and wonder when it all changed.
Sue Cunningham-SnellHOST
And that comes from Bob Darville at Austin Close in Newton.
Kathryn WardGUEST
So, yeah, probably rounding off with a bit of a walk around some gardens.
Kathryn WardGUEST
I do love the National Trust, English Heritage, RHS place, and maybe a nice meal out with the family to finish or just end up back in the garden with a glass of rosary.
AdamHOST
Perfect.
AdamHOST
It sounds great.
AtticusGUEST
... 'cause I think I'm better at history than geography
Anastasia KingsnorthHOST
Yeah, 'cause you do maths, English-
Julie StantonHOST
But you're lovely at geog-
AtticusGUEST
The, a language
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Anastasia KingsnorthHOST
... a 12-year-old's body.
AtticusGUEST
No. You've said that before.
AtticusGUEST
Is English Heritage or National Trust not?
Julie StantonHOST
Who's put National Heritage? The person that sent it out probably.
Lucy WorsleyGUEST
I was the organizer of something called National Windmills Day.
Lucy WorsleyGUEST
And after that, I sort of progressed, and I got jobs at English Heritage and Glasgow Museums, and I did my PhD.
Lucy WorsleyGUEST
I did it as a, a mature student a bit later on, which I think is a kind of a superpower because once you're grown up, you realize you can't mess around if you get the opportunity to learn like that.
Lucy WorsleyGUEST
So I zipped through my PhD, and then I moved from Glasgow Museums to Historic Royal Palaces in 2003.
Wes SwainGUEST
And then, yeah, speaking with the councils, obviously the islands were all owned by the Duchy of Cornwall.
Wes SwainGUEST
So you've got to get permissions from the Dutchie, English Heritage, all of those things.
Wes SwainGUEST
And I was lucky that I had people that were pointing me in the right direction.
Wes SwainGUEST
These are the people you should really contact.
Ian WoodsHOST
The 12th gives you a great view of Dunsterborough Castle itself, which construction started in 1313.
Ian WoodsHOST
It was modernised, it says, on the English Heritage website in 1380.
Ian WoodsHOST
Modernised in 1380, can you imagine?
Neil WhiteHOST
I don't know what they must have done.
Alex GreenwoodHOST
And then we get to the arena where the paintballing is taking place.
Alex GreenwoodHOST
I did look it up before this episode, actually, and it is a 12th century castle, and I think it's owned by English Heritage, so you can go and visit this site.
Alex GreenwoodHOST
It's not a paintballing location anymore.
Alex GreenwoodHOST
But did you notice how they all got taken to this venue, all the kids? Yeah.
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