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- 2019 Jan to March
- Rædwald the Great, First King of England
- The Rise of Byzantium, AD 350-800
- Sweyn Forkbeard and the Rise of the Cult of St Edmund
- Money in Anglo-Saxon England
- Medieval Graffiti: A Window into the Past
- Pre-Christian Gods of Old England in Art and Literature
- Medieval Ireland Story and History
- The Paston Family and their East Anglia
- The Old English Eastertide Festival
- 2018 Sept to Dec
- The Black Death
- The Landscape of Suffolk Place-Names
- The Horse in Early Anglo-Saxon England.
- 1066 – Year Zero?
- New Thoughts on Old Swords: The Sword in Early England from the 5th to 7th Centuries
- Beowulf, Sutton Hoo, and the Wuffings.
- Raising The Dead: The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon Death and Burial.
- Reconstructing Everyday Lives in the Mid-13th-Century Fenland Landscape.
- Castles, Moats, and Feudal Symbolism in Medieval Suffolk
- The Old English Yuletide Feast
- 2018 April to July
- An Exploration of the Wonders of Old English Language and its Literature.
- Art and History in the Bayeux Tapestry
- The Icelandic Family Saga: Fact or Fiction?
- The Gold of the Iceni
- St Æthelbert: East Anglia’s other King and Martyr
- The Staffordshire Hoard: An Unparalleled Treasure of Anglo-Saxon England
- The Transformations of the Year 600 AD
- Wonder-Women of Early Anglo-Saxon England
- From Childeric to Charlemagne: Imagining Power in the Kingdom of the Franks
- 2018 Jan to March
- Suffolk’s Valley of the Kings: Sutton Hoo and the River Deben
- Collapse and Recovery: the Revival of Learning in the First Millennium.
- The Oldest Extant Houses: The Homes of Medieval Rural Folk in East Anglia.
- The Kingdoms of East Anglia and Kent
- Raising the Dead: The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon Death and Burial
- Death, Loss, and Dragon Hoards: Early Anglo-Saxon Art.
- St Patrick (c.390 – 17th March, c.461): His Life, Times, and Legacy
- The Story of European Armour, c. 600- 1650.
- 2017 Sept to Dec
- William Marshal, England’s Most Famous Knight
- Viking Warfare and Military Organisation
- The de la Poles: the rise and rise of an East Anglian family
- William The Conqueror
- Anglo-Saxon Barrows in the Landscape
- ‘Soggy Saints’: Landscape and Sanctity in Medieval East Anglia.
- The Forgotten History of King Edmund and the Danish Kingdom of East Anglia (c. 855-917)
- Prehistoric Pompeiis? An exploration of sites with exceptional preservation
- Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene: Myth, Monsters, and Romance.
- The Old English Yuletide Feast.
- 2017 April to July
- Vikings in Your Vocabulary
- From Wool to Cloth: The Triumph of the Suffolk Clothier
- St Magnus and the Orkney Isles
- King Æthelstan, the Making of England, and the Battle of Brunanburh
- The Anglo-Saxon Riddle Tradition: Is it Really a Laughing Matter?
- The Forgotten History of St Bótwulf (Botolph)
- King Edward II: The Man and the Mystery
- Settlements and Strongholds: Literature and Landscape in Early Medieval England
- The Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
- 2017 Jan to April
- King Rædwald and the Battle of the River Idle
- Forgotten Versions of Christianity in the First Millennium
- Roman Colchester
- Pageantry, Politics, & Power: Elizabeth I in East Anglia, 1578
- The Norman Conquest: Triumph or Catastrophe?
- The Anglo-Saxon Sword, 5th to 7th Centuries; Its Archaeology, Decoration, Production, Use, and Significance.
- The Old Testament of English History: An Introduction to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
- The Fertility God Ing in Old English Poetry and in the Royal Centre at Yeavering, Northumbria
- A Portrait of the Artist: J.M.W. Turner in East Anglia
- The Wooden World of Anglo-Saxon and Norman Ships, Boats, and Ports in Context
- 2016 Sept to Dec
- The Battle of Stamford Bridge (25th Sept. 1066)
- Medieval Kingship
- Viking Voyagers: The Maritime World of the Vikings
- Art and History in the Bayeux Tapestry
- Recent Research on Rural Buildings and their Context in Suffolk
- The Anglo-Saxon Art of Woodworking
- The Anglo-Saxon Fenland, c.400 – c.1000 AD.
- Old English Language and Literature
- Christmas at the Court of King Arthur: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- The Old English Yuletide Feast
- 2016 April to July
- Medieval Festivities and Entertainments in East Anglia
- St George, Beowulf, and the Dragon
- Chivalry in Medieval England: From Sutton Hoo to Agincourt
- An Introduction to Runes and Rune Lore
- Restoring English Liberties! Anglo-Saxons, Magna Carta and the English Civil War
- The Rendlesham Project
- Formidable Women of Anglo-Saxon England
- Woodlands, Trees, and Timber in Anglo-Saxon Culture
- Gold in Ground: The Old English Riddles and their Relatives
- Anglo-Saxon Farming
- 2016 Jan to March
- King Rædwald the Great
- From Catacombs to Basilicas: the first eight hundred years of Christianity in Rome
- Smiths, Soldiers, and Princes of pre-Roman Essex.
- The Archaeology of the House
- Anglo-Saxon Settlements
- Charlemagne (748-814)
- Bishoprics and Battlefields: East Anglia during the 7th Century
- ReReading Beowulf
- Up to Dec 2015
- Previous Study Days up to Dec 2015
- 2015 Sept to Dec
- Early Merovingian Gaul
- English Medieval Queenship
- Celtic, Pictish, & Anglo-Saxon Visual Culture (c.550-850)
- The Battle of Assandún
- The Battle of Agincourt (25th October 1415)
- Devils and Disguises: The Medieval Drama of East Anglia
- Sutton Hoo: the Other Barrows and Burials.
- The Female Saints of Anglo-Saxon England
- First Steps in Old English
- The Old English Yuletide Festival
- 2015 April to July
- Early Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries: Older and Newer Perspectives
- The Pursuit of Paradise: Gardens and the Human Imagination through Time
- The Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Spong Hill: Evidence for Anglo-Saxon Migration?
- Magna Carta: History and Meaning
- Seeking the Body of St Edmund: 1539 to the present
- Medieval Dress,Identity and Fashion
- Bede and the Beginnings of England
- Photography for Archaeologists
- Leechcraft – the Early English Healing Tradition
- Illuminating the Past: Archaeology in the Landscape
- Riot, Rebellion and Regicide: East Anglia 1647-1649
- 2015 Jan to March
- Sutton Hoo and the Golden Age of Ænglaland
- The Fall of the Roman Empire: What actually fell and what came out of the ruins?
- Reconstructing the Landscapes of Medieval Villages, Their Fields & Pastures before 1300
- The Vikings at Home: The History and Culture of Scandinavia (800-1066)
- Pre-Christian Fertility Cults in Britain and the Origins of St Valentine’s Day
- King Rædwald and the Temple of the Two Altars
- Understanding Wealth and Status in Post-Roman Europe
- Anglo-Saxons, Romans and Carolingian Frankia
- Monasteries in the Landscape
- Medieval Church Graffiti: the hidden history of the Parish church
- 2014 Sept. to Dec.
- Rethinking the Anglo-Saxon Migrations
- Richard III
- Imaging The Exotic: Evidence for Contact between Britain, Ireland and the Near East during the Anglo-Saxon Age
- The Bayeux Tapestry and Anglo-Norman Art and History
- Stepping into Britain: A Million Years of Human History.
- Sutton Hoo and the Ostrogoths
- Barrows and Barrow-Burial, 400-700 AD
- The Black Death
- An Introduction to the Old English Epic of Beowulf
- Castles, Moats, and Feudal Symbolism in Medieval Suffolk
- 2014 April to July
- The Legend of Wayland The Wonder-Smith
- Vikings: Life and Legend
- The Prittlewell Prince
- The Sword in Early Mediaeval Europe
- Money and Power in Anglo-Saxon England
- Old Norse Heroic Poetry
- St Botulf the Exorcist
- East Anglia from late prehistory to the Anglo-Saxon period: continuities & changes
- King Alfred of Wessex: His Life, Times and Reputation
- New Developments in the Chronology of Early Anglo-Saxon England
- 2014 Jan. to April
- Burial and Belief in Anglo-Saxon East Anglia
- An Introduction to Beowulf and Sutton Hoo
- An Introduction to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
- Hwæt! Reading Old English Poetry
- St David and the Saints of Wales
- The Helmingham Recipe and Medical Manuscripts, 1580-1612
- The Land of Boudica
- What was Byzantine Christianity?
- ‘We see nothing truly till we understand it’ An Exploration of the History of the East Anglian Landscape
- Surviving the Reformation: Catholic Families in East Anglia
- An Introduction to Middle English and Arthurian Literature
- The Eastertide Festival in Early England
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