Welcome to Dr Sam Newton’s Wuffings’ Website Website, which aims to provide a focus for the study of Sutton Hoo and the history and culture of the Wuffing Kingdom of East Anglia, Beowulf, and beyond.
Title-picture above: The former island-site of St Botolph’s minster at Iken Hoo, founded in 654 according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, at high tise on a still winter’s morning with the spritsail barge Cygnet sailing by (©Dr Sam Newton 12th January 2014).
Please scroll down for information about (1) Wuffing Education study-days, study-mornings, and other events (2) my weekly seminars, (3) available lectures, (4) about me and my works, (5) my books and other publications, and (6) some old but still occasionally useful resources for Wuffing & Sutton Hoo Studies.
1. Wuffing Education Online Study-Days, Study-Mornings (Live and Online), and Lectures
Above: frescoe from Pompeii of a young woman holding a stylus and writing-tablet (Naples Museum, Italy – with thanks to Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.0).
– Autumn study-days and study-mornings to be announced soon –
– click here for the full programme on Eventbrite –
– please note that these events are not recorded –
2. Weekly Morning Seminars in Sutton Hoo and Beowulf Studies 2025, live and online
3. If you wish to book me to deliver a lecture or study-day, click here for a selection of titles.
4. About Me and My Works
5. My Books:
1. The Reckoning of King Rædwald (2003)
2. The Origins of Beowulf and the pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia (1993)
My more recent published papers, such as “The Forgotten History of St Bótwulf (Botolph)” (2016), can be downloaded from my page on Academia.
6. Resources for Wuffing Studies:
Wuffings’ Who Was Who (genealogical & historical information)
Sutton Hoo: Burial-Ground of the Wuffings (some of the wonders of the royal ship-burial)
Wuffing and Related Places of Interest (sites where the Wuffings walked; and more) – work in progress
In Defence of the Wuffings (Book Review) – my response to some of Professor Martin Carver’s theories about Sutton Hoo and the kings of East Anglia.
Sutton Hoo: Burial-Ground of Dissidents? – further thoughts on Professor Martin Carver’s theories about Sutton Hoo.
Some Wuffing Studies’ reading lists
Some Old Links to related Websites
