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Tag Archives: History
Identifying and understanding the Old English -ing3 patronymic constructions in the ‘Historia de Sancto Cuthberto’
A year and a half later, and I still can’t get a good handle on what I actually achieved in my time studying for a PhD (not that I even got as far as completing the MPhil bit, but hey, … Continue reading
Posted in Anglo-Saxon, Church, Dating, Documents, Genealogy, Hagiography, History, Language, Latin, Literature, Monasteries, Northumbria, Old English, PhD
Tagged Anglo-Saxon, Church History, Durham, Historia de Sancto Cuthberto, History, Latin, manuscripts, Medieval History, Norman, Old English, Onomastics, St Cuthbert, Who WAS Symeon of Durham?, WPLongform
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Kingston upon Thames: ‘Where England Began’, and bad history for good (and not-so-good) causes?
The following post follows on from this one, and concludes (for the time being at least) my look at Anglo-Saxon-period Kingston upon Thames that began with this paper. Kingston upon Thames as a 21st-century town wears its “Anglo-Saxon” history more … Continue reading
Posted in Anglo-Saxon, Charters, Church, Folklore, History, Politics, Soapbox
Tagged Blickling Mead, British history, Coronation Stone, English history, History, King Ecgberht, Kingston Coronation Stone, Kingston history, Kingston upon Thames, No fan of Brexit, Stonehenge, Where England Began, White Horse Stone
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Kingston upon Thames, the Coronation Stone, and digging a bit deeper to get past the nonsense
Not for the first time, what started as a modest but interesting idea that popped into my head and that I thought could be fleshed out a little through a “quick blog” has ballooned into something much, much larger. So, … Continue reading
Posted in Anglo-Saxon, Archaeology, Architecture, Folklore, History, Landscape, Place, WPLongform
Tagged Archaeology, Coronation Stone, Folklore, History, Kingston Coronation Stone, Kingston history, Kingston upon Thames, local history, Local legend, London, London archaeology, London history, Medieval History, Prehistoric, Sarsen, Stone, WPLongform
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New work: Kingston upon Thames revisited
Nowadays, you’ll find me in Kingston upon Thames maybe four times a week as it’s my main place of work. However, save for a driving lesson in 2003 when I passed through but didn’t actually set foot in the town, … Continue reading
Posted in Anglo-Saxon, Archaeology, Charters, Folklore, History, Landscape, Latin, Old English, Place-Names, Pottery, Ritual, Thames, Topography, Trade
Tagged Anglo-Saxon, Archaeology, charters, History, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey
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Surrey Medieval, the rest of 2018 edition
Last week was by most metrics a horrendous week. Just as you thought it couldn’t get any worse, so it did. Day after bleeding day. I’m glad to report this week was a bit better, but didn’t undo any of … Continue reading
Posted in Being organised, News, Politics, Travel
Tagged Archaeology, Cambodia, History, Language, Surrey
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New work (in progress): Bassishaw and Basinghall
A few weeks ago, I attended a seminar given by Prof. Andrew Reynolds (my primary thesis supervisor, if I haven’t mentioned that before) in which he revisited a paper on the Anglo-Saxon archaeology of the City of London first delivered at a conference … Continue reading
Posted in Anglo-Saxon, Archaeology, Charters, Dating, History, London, Old English, Place-Names
Tagged Anglo-Saxon, Archaeology, Bassishaw, City of London, History, London, medieval, Names
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410-1066 CE: What should we call the period (at least so far as Surrey is concerned)?
Midway through last month, I finished editing my first Surrey Archaeological Society Medieval Studies Forum Newsletter. I’m pretty proud of the finished product, if I do say so myself! You’ll have to join the Forum to enjoy the whole thing, but I … Continue reading
Posted in Anglo-Saxon, Archaeology, Architecture, Dating, History, Language, Middlesex, Soapbox, Surrey, Sussex, Viking
Tagged Anglo-Saxon, Archaeology, Early Medieval, History, medieval, Surrey
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Is it a castle? Is it a causeway? Further adventures in historical field-names
Everyone likes castles, right? They’re one of the things that make the medieval period what it is in many people’s eyes. Of course, not every castle looks like Bodiam (yes, that one that’s on the cover of pretty much EVERY … Continue reading
Posted in Castle, Causeways, Field-names, Godalming, History, Landscape, Middle English, Place-Names, Surrey
Tagged Archaeology, Archives, Castles, Causeways, field-names, History, Landscape Archaeology, local history, Names, Surrey
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Not in my name or theirs: in defence and celebration of the diversity of what I study
In my previous post, I attempted to underline that medieval studies nowadays finds itself in a position of having an unusually high level of political relevance. Not through any moves obviously engineered by academic medievalists, rather through the rise in Europe and the US … Continue reading
Posted in Anglo-Saxon, Annals, Archaeology, Bede, Charters, Coins, Dating, History, Language, Latin, Literature, Old English, PhD, Place-Names, Politics, Twitter
Tagged Anglo-Saxon, Archaeology, History, ingas not Incas, Linguistics, Literature, medieval, Old English, Onomastics, PhD, place-names, WPLongform
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On trying to be a better medievalist (and make the world a better place)
I spent a large chunk of the first few weeks of the new year away from this blog working on a funding application for my PhD research. Consequently, of late, I have spent a lot of time thinking about what I study, … Continue reading
Posted in Anglo-Saxon, Annals, Archaeology, History, internet, Language, Literature, News, Old English, PhD, Place-Names, Politics, Publishing, Soapbox, Twitter
Tagged Anthropology, Antifa, Archaeology, History, Language, Linguistics, Old English, Onomastics, PhD, place-names, WPLongform
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