![]() Maggie Brown, "Bernard Cornwell: BBC made The Last Kingdom due to its 'interesting echoes of today'", The Guardian, 17 October 2015. The BBC released a televised adaptation of the series in 2015 Netflix took over the production from the third season, and released the fifth and final season in March 2022. Just a piece of history, incredibly untaught, it captured my imagination, and hopefully, it signals something new about the way historical drama will be made" (quoted in Brown). I thought it had interesting echoes of today. The inhabitants of this island felt it was time to be united. ![]() As Cornwell explains, the series is "about the origins of England, how these different kingdoms come together, and it is told through the eyes of this fictitious character, bringing in ideas of revenge, identity and quest, mixing that with real history. ![]() Set in the ninth and tenth centuries during the birth of England, these historical novels are narrated by Uhtred of Bebbanburg, who is based on the historical Uhtred the Bold (d.1016), an ancestor of the author. Complete sets are not often encountered in commerce. ![]() ![]() The scarce supplement, Warrior's Story, in which Cornwell outlines his inspiration for the series, was originally distributed for free alongside purchases of the newly released Sword Song in 2007. First editions, first impressions, signed by the author on the title page. ![]()
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