Regia Anglorum Conferences

Since 2012, the Society has held several conferences where academics and experts from both without and within the Society talk to members in detail about the era.

Over the years, we have been privileged to have some world renowned experts in our period come and talk to us and been party to seldom heard stories. In 2016, Andy Nicholson, the Local Government Archaeological Officer for Dumfries and Galloway, recalled being the only archaeologist on site when the nationally-significant Galloway Hoard was excavated. in 2019, Dr Cat Jarman’s non-disclosure agreement ended a week before the conference, meaning we were the first outsiders to hear some of the more fascinating details of the Repton investigations.

No conference is currently scheduled.

Past Conferences

2022: Hexham, Northumberland

This conference, originally scheduled for mid-April 2022, was cancelled to channel funds into urgent works at Wychurst.

2021: Hexham, Northumberland

This conference, originally scheduled for mid-April 2021, was cancelled because of the Coronavirus pandemic.

2020: Hexham, Northumberland

This conference, originally scheduled for mid-April 2020, was cancelled because of the Coronavirus pandemic.

2019: Dronfield, Derbyshire

• Constraints of Landscape on Events in our Period
  Martin Williams^†
• Ecclesiastical Vestments
  Catherine Stallybrass^†
• An app for the Viking Age in north-west England
  Clare Downham (University of Liverpool)
• The Vikings in England – insights from portable antiquities
  Jane Kershaw (School of Archaeology, University of Oxford)
• Anglo-Saxon Tool Hoards
  Kevin Leahy (Portable Antiquities Scheme)
• The Great Army at Repton and beyond
  Cat Jarman (University of Bristol)

2018: Lichfield, Staffordshire

• The Lady Æthelflæd
  Clare Downham (University of Liverpool)
• Context is everything: studying Viking practices in the Anglo-Saxon Church
  Danica Ramsey-Brimsberg (University of Liverpool)
• The War of Succession between Edmund Ironside and Cnut
  David McDermott^† (University of Winchester)
• Tour of Lichfield Cathedral – AS sculpture in the North Choir Aisle
• Going to War in Viking Age England
  Ryan Lavelle (University of Winchester)
• The Magic of Runes
  Judith Jesch (University of Nottingham)
• Singing the Consolation of Philosophy in Anglo-Saxon England
  Sam Barrett (Pembroke College, Cambridge)

2017: West Kirby, Merseyside

• Nothing is More Deceptive than an Obvious Fact: Vikings’ Manipulation of Christianity in Burials in the Irish Sea Area
  Danica Ramsey-Brimberg (University of Liverpool)
• Landscape and Farming; c. 400-900
  Sue Oosthuizen (Wolfson College, Cambridge)
• The Huxley Hoard: Viking silver in Cheshire and its regional context
  Rob Philpott (University of Liverpool)
• But they found one at Hedeby… An overview of the site and finds
  Louise Archer^†
• Tour of the West Kirby Museum and Church
• The West Kirby Stone in its regional context
  Howard Williams (University of Chester)
• Virgins, Bishops and Silver: the Forum Hoard between England and Rome
  Rory Naismith (Kings College, London)

2016: Old Malton, Yorkshire

This conference was dedicated to the memory of Kim Siddorn.

• Viking Age Accessories
  Louise Archer^†
• Luke 7:32; Whistles vs Harps
  Richard Walsh^†
• The First Viking Raids in England
  Clare Downham (University of Liverpool)
• Excavating the Galloway Hoard
  Andrew Nicholson^† (Dumfries and Galloway Archaeological Officer)
• The Amazing Middle-Saxon Site at Flixborough, 25 years on
  Kevin Leahy (Portable Antiquities Scheme)
• Finding the Vikings
  Kevin Leahy (Portable Antiquities Scheme)
• William Marshal: A Knight’s Journey: From child hostage to Lord of Chepstow
  Elizabeth Chadwick^†

2014: Islip, Oxfordshire

• Northern European Female Head Coverings during the Viking Age
  Louise Archer^†
• Dress and Textiles in the later Eleventh Century – the evidence of the Bayeux Tapestry
  Gale Owen-Crocker (University of Manchester)
• Northern European Male Head Coverings during the Viking Age
  Louise Archer^†
• Pottery in the Oxfordshire region 900-1200
  Paul Blinkhorn (Access Cambridge Archaeology)
• The mediaeval Knights Templar: A quest of History, Places, and People
  Karen Ralls
• Monumental Imagery in Angevin England: stained glass and wall paintings before 1215
  Richard Rosewell
• Beekeeping and honey production in early medieval England
  Liz Tice^†
• The Winter Camp at Torksey
  Julian D Richards (University of York)

2013: Coleshill, Warwickshire

This conference, originally scheduled for mid-October 2013, was cancelled.

2012: Abingdon, Oxfordshire

The inaugural conference

• The Weymouth Viking Cemetery
  Michael Harris^†
• Leechcraft
  Stephen Pollington
• A warning to the curious: digging the Cleatham Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
  Kevin Leahy (Portable Antiquities Scheme)
• The Staffordshire Hoard and other finds
  Kevin Leahy (Portable Antiquities Scheme)
• Warrior Culture
  Stephen Pollington
• The Year of the Conquest – Project Management for Kings
  Stephen Carver (Cranfield University)
• High Grade Steel in Anglo-Saxon England
  Helen Bowstead-Stallybrass^†
• Early English Language
  Stephen Pollington
• Music and instruments in Pre-Conquest England
  Jan-Ellen Harriman^† (London Metropolitan University)
• Thynghowe – a Viking site in Sherwood Forest
  Lynda Mallett and Stuart Reddish (Friends of Thynghowe)
• The Mead Hall
  Stephen Pollington
• The Swords in the Staffordshire Hoard
  Helen Geake (University of York)

Speakers marked with a † were members of Regia Anglorum at the time of the conference.

Dr Kevin Leahy has been the academic patron of Regia Anglorum since 2015.