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Tawdry Tales, A St Audry’s Day Special on Formidable Women of Old England![]() with Dr Sam Newtonat Tranmer House, Sutton Hoo (map)
A reassessment of Old English female power from pre-Christian times.
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10.00 | Coffee on arrival | ||
10.15 | Female Power in Early England | ||
11.15 | Coffee | ||
11.30 | The Daughters of King Anna | ||
12.30 | Lunch break | ||
14:00 | Wuffings and Æscings | ||
15:00 | Tea break | ||
15:15 | Other Formidbale Women of Early England | ||
16:15 | Close |
A fter early experiences in archaeology, Sam Newton graduated from the University of East Anglia with a first in English Literature in 1983. He was awarded his Ph.D. in 1991 and published his first book, The Origins of Beowulf and the pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia, in 1993. Since then he has worked as an independent scholar in Wuffing and Early Medieval Studies. His latest book, The Reckoning of King Rædwald, was published in 2003. He is also now a Director of Wuffing Education and Time Team historian.
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Fairweather, J. [tr.] Liber Eliensis – A History of the Isle of Ely from the Seventh to the Eleventh Century (Boydell 2005)
Farmer, D.H., The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (Oxford 1978)
Gallyon, M., The Early Church in Eastern England (Lavenham 1973)
James, E.,The Franks (Oxford 1988)
Mayr-Harting, H., The Coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford 1977)
Newton, S., The Reckoning of King Rædwald (Redbird Press 2003)
Rollason, D., Northumbria 500-1100 (Cambridge 2003)
Scarfe, Norman, Suffolk in the Middle Ages (Boydell 1986)
Sherley-Price, L., Bede: A History of the English Church and People (Penguin Classics 1955, 1968)
Witney. K.P., The Kingdom of Kent (Phillimore 1982)
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