Episode 111– Hewing & Herring
The humble herring turned out to be the most significant trade in the Hanseatic League
Episode 110– The Livonian Cities
Riga, Reval (=Tallin) and Dorpat (=Tartu) were the members of the Hanseatic League who ended up controlling the trade in fur and beeswax
Episode 109– Gotlandfahrer
Working on the new series about the Hanseatic League I come back to the question how this organisation (if it even was one) could be so enduring. It had no permanent institutions, no register of members and operated on the fringe of global trade…
Episode 105 – The Foundation of Lübeck
Episode 105 is out! today we look at how a small settlement on a minor river became the second largest city in the empire north of the Alps