Courses I'm running elsewhere in England in 2009

If you live far from our study-centre at Sutton Hoo, you might find one of the residential courses or study-days listed below more within reach.

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The Viking Age in Britain

Beginning with an introduction to the major documents of Old Norse and Old English culture, we shall explore some of the landscapes on which they cast light.  Our main narrative source will be that Old Testament of English history, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, through which we shall chart what we can of the history and culture of Anglo-Scandinavian Britain from the ninth to the eleventh century.  

Higham Hall College,

Bassenthwaite Lake, Cumbria

Monday 20th April - Friday 24th April 2009

Higham Hall College

admin@highamhall.com

tel. 01768 776 276

King Alfred and the Cakes

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle provides a dramatic and near-contemporary narrative of the events of the year 878, one of the great turning points in the history of England.  From the Danish surprise attack on Wessex on Twelfth Night to Alfred’s victory at Edington and the subsequent baptism of the Danish king later in the year, we shall explore this narrative and attempt to locate the events in the English landscape.   We may thus be consider the true significance of the well-known but curious little story of Alfred and the Cakes.

Urchfont Manor,

Wiltshire 

Wednesday 6th May - Friday 9th May

Urchfont Manor

urchfontmanor@wiltshire.gov.uk

tel. 01380 840 495

The Master Workshop of Sutton Hoo

An exploration of some of the artistic and technical wonders found aboard the funeral-ship berthed beneath Mound One at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, burial place of the Wuffing kings of East Anglia. The central theme will be the superb jewellery of gold, garnet, and blue glass, which reveals such a brilliant synthesis of styles. These masterworks appear to have been made in the East Anglian royal workshop for the king who lay in state in this treasure-laden ship, thought most likely to have been Rędwald (died c.625), possibly the first king of all England.

Cotswold Conference Centre, Farncombe Estate, Broadway, Worcestershire

Friday

8th May - Sunday

10th May 2009

Farncombe Estate

enquiries@farncombeestate.co.uk

tel. 01386 854 100

Sutton Hoo, King Rędwald, and the Coming of Christianity to the English

Who was the great Wuffing king who lay in state in the treasure-laden ship berthed beneath Mound One at Sutton Hoo?  We shall begin the day with a new look at this discovery in the light of recent work, such as the East Saxon royal burial from Prittlewell.  We shall explore the ways in which the character of the Sutton Hoo grave-goods may provide clues as to the identity of the king buried there. We shall then reappraise the history of East Anglia and England around the time of the burial, whence it will emerge that the Wuffing king Rędwald may have been a far more central figure in the early success of Christianity in England than has previously been acknowledged.  We shall also consider the indications that he was also the first king of all the English in Britain. 

Madingley Hall, Cambridge

Friday

3rd July

- Sunday

5th July 2009

course code 89R194

University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education

Website www.cont-ed.cam.ac.uk  

tel. 01954 280 200

King Alfred and the Cakes

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle provides a dramatic and near-contemporary narrative of the events of the year 878, one of the great turning points in the history of England.  From the Danish surprise attack on Wessex on Twelfth Night to Alfred’s victory at Edington and the subsequent baptism of the Danish king later in the year, we shall explore this narrative and attempt to locate the events in the English landscape.   We may thus be consider the true significance of the well-known but curious little story of Alfred and the Cakes.

Cotswold Conference Centre, Farncombe Estate, Broadway, Worcestershire

Friday

10th July

- Sunday

12th July 2009

Farncombe Estate

enquiries@farncombeestate.co.uk

tel. 01386 854 100

Sutton Hoo and the Beginnings of England   Belstead House, Ipswich, Suffolk Friday 7th August - Sunday 9th August 2009

Belstead House belstead.house@educ.suffolkcc.gov.uk

tel. 01473 686 321

The Bayeux Tapestry: Anglo-Norman Art and History   Madingley Hall, Cambridge Friday 18th Sept. - Sunday 20th Sept. 2009

University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education

Website www.cont-ed.cam.ac.uk  

tel. 01954 280 200

Cambridge and the East Anglian Kingdom

(Study-Day)

  Madingley Hall, Cambridge Sunday 15th Nov. 2009

University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education

Website www.cont-ed.cam.ac.uk  

tel. 01954 280 200

 

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