This page contains links to the handouts which I have prepared for many of my lectures and dayschools. I hope that you find them useful.
The Story of East Anglia I
This lecture series for the Rickinghall Further Education Group was delivered in 2021 and presented an overview of the development of the East Anglian landscape from the prehistoric to the post-medieval periods. Drawing on many of the region’s most important archaeological sites and new discoveries, the course also introduced the techniques used to ‘read’ and interpret the historic landscape.
- Course Outline
- Session 1: Prehistoric East Anglia
- Session 2: Roman East Anglia
- Session 3: Early Anglo-Saxon East Anglia
- Session 4: Late Anglo-Saxon and Medieval East Anglia
- Session 5: Medieval and Post-Medieval East Anglia
The Story of East Anglia II
Following on from the previous lecture series the Rickinghall Further Education Group, these sessions were delivered in 2022. It explored in more detail some of the important periods of history which have shaped the East Anglian landscape and the archaeological discoveries resulting from them.
- Course Outline
- Session 1: Raising the Dead: Anglo-Saxon Death and Burial
- Session 2: ‘Bare Ruin’d Choirs’: Monastic Landscapes of East Anglia
- Session 3: Field visit to Bury St Edmund’s Abbey
- Session 4: ‘Protect and Survive’: Cold War East Anglia
- Session 5: ‘Wonderful Things’: Howard Carter and Tutankhamun
The Story of East Anglia III
Following two previous series of lectures for the Rickinghall Further Education Group, this lecture series was presented in 2025 and comprised a series of stand-alone sessions focussing on different aspects of East Anglia’s rich heritage, as seen through the eyes of generations of archaeologists, antiquaries and artists.
- Course Outline
- Session 1: Written in the Genes: How ancient DNA is transforming our understanding of the past
- Session 2: What Lies Beneath? Archaeological discoveries in times of drought
- Session 3: Hoards of the Things: Roman Treasure in East Anglia
- Session 4: Thoughts and Crosses: The Archaeology of the East Anglian Conversion
- Session 5: Put to Good Use: The Religious Reuse of the Saxon Shore Forts
- Session 6: Viking Age East Anglia
- Session 7: Landscapes of Lordship: New Buckenham Castle in its Historical Landscape
- Session 8: Field visit to New Buckenham
- Session 9: M.R. James: East Anglian Antiquarian
- Session 10: A Portrait of the Artist: J.M.W. Turner in East Anglia
River Raiders
Three online seminars focussing on Anglo-Saxon and Viking East Anglia were delivered as part of the River Raiders project in late 2020. Recordings of these sessions can be viewed on the Brecks and Fen Edge Rivers project YouTube channel. These supporting documents contain references and links to further resources.