Talks
‘Æthelstan, Eamont, and the Politics of the Irish Sea World’ | Dr Charles Insley
While much attention focuses on the Eamont meeting as setting the seal on the creation of the ‘kingdom of the English’, that meeting also had...
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‘The Welsh and Eamont’ | Dr Rebecca Thomas
This talk will use Eamont 927 as a springboard to consider relations between the Welsh and the English in the tenth century. It will reassess...
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‘The Great War of the North. The Treaty of Eamont to the Battle of Dunmail Raise’
From the gathering of kings at Eamont in 927 to the conflict traditionally associated with Dunmail Raise in 945, this talk explores a turbulent struggle...
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‘The Beginnings of England’ | Dr Marc Morris
In the early fifth century, Britain was a ruined Roman province –a land of crumbling temples and abandoned villas. By the early eleventh century, it...
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‘Keeping the King’s Peace: the “Peace Gilds” of Athelstan’s Reign’ | Professor Rory Naismith
The reign of Athelstan is best known for the military and political expansion of the English, but it was also a time of important developments...
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‘Constantín mac Aeda, the King who made Scotland’ | Professor Alex Woolf
One of the northern kings who met Æthelstan at Eamont on 12th July 927 was Constantín King of the Scottas. His long reign, from 900...