Casting Light upon the Shadow

One of the most famous (or should that be notorious?) Anglo-Saxon women is Lady Godiva or, to give her her Old English name, Godgifu. And th...

When were women legally allowed to petition for divorce? Perhaps one might guess at the late nineteenth or even early twentieth century? In ...

With the study of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the writings of Bede, the Welsh and Irish annals, and the later Anglo-Norman Chroniclers (many ...

Some Anglo-Saxon kings are famous, for either being successful (Alfred the Great, Athelstan) or unsuccessful (Æthelred the Unready). Some ha...

As you probably know, I love researching and writing about the history of Mercia. There’s so much to find when we start digging around; lega...

  On Friday I  had the opportunity to travel into ancient Northumbria to visit Ad Gefrin. A few years ago I had visited the site, at Yeaveri...

On Sunday June 12th as part of Tamworth's Æthelfest 23, I delivered the second of my talks*. This time the subject was Prominent Women o...