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Ploughs not piety? Anglo-Saxon economic regeneration in the seventh century

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Penda - the last guardian of the Great Sacred Grove

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Through the Eye of the Skull: peculiar first-person perspectives

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Nottinghamshire's earliest churches

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Legendary journeys of Britain

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Were Anglo-Saxon weaving huts women-only places?

In this video I discuss the sunken-featured buildings where Anglo-Saxons wove flax into linen. And rather often buried young children under the floor. Does this mean they were akin to the 'pit houses' known to ethnographers? And were they, like some of the pit houses, women-only spaces?
If you can add relevant information please email me: bobtrubs@indigogroup.co.uk
UPDATE: In _Buile Suibhne_ (otherwise known as the 'Madness of King Sweeney') describing his defeat at the Battle of Moira (Mag Roth) in 637 CE are these two lines:
As flax is scutched by women
so was my army beaten.
Probably written around the C13th rather than the C7th, but confirmation that flax-working was strongly associated with women in Ireland.
sources
'Linen Flax - Flax plant for spinning and weaving' permies.com/t/flaxtolinen
'Making Linen Fabric from Flax Seed' ua-cam.com/video/TFuj7sXVnIU/v-deo.html
'How Linen Is Made' ua-cam.com/video/-ZrZZefkohE/v-deo.html
'The Prehistoric Workshop - Flax' theprehistoricworkshop.co.uk/flax/
'Sweeney's Oratory' dsdnt.blogspot.com/2024/05/sweeneys-oratory.html
Bek-Pedersen, Karen, 2011, _The Norns in Old Norse Mythology_, Dunedin.
Enright, Michael J., 1996, _Lady with a Mead Cup: Ritual, prophecy and lordship in the European warband from La Tene to the Viking Age_, Four Courts Press.
Fell, Christine, 1984, _Women in Anglo-Saxon England_, British Museum Publications
Hamerow, Helena, 2006, '”Special deposits” in Anglo-Saxon settlements', _Medieval Archaeology_, vol.60 pp1-30.
Krakowka, Kathryn, 2024, 'More exciting clues uncovered at early medieval site in the Coquet Valley'; the-past.com/news/more-exciting-clues-uncovered-at-early-medieval-site-in-the-coquet-valley/
Petty, Christina, 2014, _Warp Weighted Looms: Then and Now Anglo-Saxon and Viking Archaeological Evidence and Modern Practitioners_; pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/54553426/FULL_TEXT.PDF
Pollington, Stephen, 2000, _Leechcraft: Early English charms, plant-lore and healing_, Anglo-Saxon Books.
Speed, Gavin and Neil Finn, 2024, _The Anglo-Saxon Settlement at Eye Kettleby, Leicestershire_, University of Leicester.

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Leicestershire and Rutland's holy wells

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As with all areas of Britain there are certain wells in Leicestershire and Rutland known as 'holy wells' and several dedicated to saints. Almost invariably such holy wells have reputations for clean water and for never running dry. Leicestershire and Rutland once had over thirty documented wells called 'holy well' or dedicated to saints. But few survive. In addition there are some wells that we...

Ploughs not piety? Anglo-Saxon economic regeneration in the seventh century

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Ploughs not piety? Anglo-Saxon economic regeneration in the seventh century

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The earliest churches in England came about because of trade with the Continent. The churches were imported as part of a close-knit package of trade, arable farming, nucleated settlements and Christianity with its attendant literacy. Eighteenth century colonialism did something very similar in the Third World and the New World. sources Blair, John, 2005, _The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society_, Oxf...

Penda - the last guardian of the Great Sacred Grove

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Penda - the last guardian of the Great Sacred Grove

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Mercia, the central part of Anglo-Saxon England, quickly became Christian after the death of Penda in 655. So he is deemed to have been the last pagan king of England - although in reality the Isle of Wight and parts of Sussex weren’t converted until the 680s. But looking at things a different way, Penda was also the last of the Defenders of the ‘Old Ways’. And most likely had sworn an oath to ...

Through the Eye of the Skull: peculiar first-person perspectives

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Through the Eye of the Skull: peculiar first-person perspectives

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Literature as diverse as Old English, medieval Welsh and Irish poetry and the tales of Scottish Travellers use the first-person to give a voice, and personality, to a diverse range of non-human beings and even artefacts. Using this device for the metaphysical relocation of self, the author’s identity may become conflated with a deity. Which is perhaps how it all started… For a much longer versi...

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Nottinghamshire's earliest churches

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This video is about the earliest churches in Nottinghamshire - the ones founded in the seventh or eighth centuries, long before the majority of what we now call parish churches were even constructed. Many of them are at places where waterborne transport could have most easily landed. This is the same at other inland counties such as Leicestershire and Wiltshire. What surprised me is that nearly...

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Legendary journeys of Britain

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Over the centuries a few journeys have become mythic. Some may have started out in reality but morphed over time in legends. Some were once integral to the life styles of the culture. They are the inspiration for ‘road trips’ as a movie trope and for a ubiquitous UA-cam meme. In essence legendary journeys are journeys which are long enough that the route has not been committed to memory - unlik...

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Evolving Anglo-Saxon agriculture

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English agriculture evolved steadily during the Anglo-Saxon period allowing the population to grow significantly. Agrarian practices of the eleventh century became the basis for subsequent generations of husbandry. Some changes - such as the need for nucleated settlements and routes between - had major implications as they are, by and large, the villages and roads which we know today. Sources P...

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Inventing the English rural idyll

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A widespread human myth is of the 'good old days', a never-quite-specified time approximately contemporary with one's grandparents when everything was better than it is today. Rural England has long been the venue for such myths. A longer version of the script for this video can be found in the opening chapter of _Sacred Places: prehistory and popular imagination_ which can be downloaded as a f...

Black Annis: Leicester's very own bogey-person

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Black Annis: Leicester's very own bogey-person

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This video is about Leicester’s best-known bogey person, Black Annis. It is a based on a much longer article: 'The making of a legend: Black Annis and her Bower', _Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society_, Vol. 80 (2006) p95-111 which can be downloaded for free from www.le.ac.uk/lahs/downloads/2006/2006 (80) 43-60 Trubshaw.pdf Note that my indications of the app...

‘Ey up me Duc!’ Leicester’s dialect and accent

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‘Ey up me Duc!’ Leicester’s dialect and accent

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This video is about why I speak the way I do. It’s a slippy un as, for a start off, ‘Yer comin round our arse afters?’ dun’t mean wot yer fust think. Do yer no nowt about it? Then shall yuh come? sources My research on Leicestershire dialects was done in 2002 and 2003. A longer version of the script for this video forms the opening chapter of _Leicestershire Legends retold by Black Annis_. This...

Watling Street: the biggest cultural boundary in England

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Watling Street: the biggest cultural boundary in England

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This video is about why a Roman road along a nationally-significant watershed became the biggest cultural boundary in England. Which is why West Midlands folk talk differently to those in Leicestershire. Sources Clive Upton, Stewart Sanderson and John Widdowson ‘Word Maps: A dialect atlas of England’ (Croom Helm 1987) Sorry, I never kept a note of who researched the parish registers and I’ve ne...

"Following the money" along medieval bypasses

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"Following the money" along medieval bypasses

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Why did medieval market towns need bypasses? I’ll answer that question by looking at some examples in Leicestershire and one just over the county boundary in Lincolnshire. Have a look at old maps and minor place-names and see if you can work out how medieval market towns near you would have been bypassed. If you can then please email me: bobtrubs@indigogroup.co.uk

Why Melton Mowbray needed to be called ‘middle town’

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Why Melton Mowbray needed to be called ‘middle town’

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We know that Melton Mowbray was especially important in Anglo-Saxon times. But why did it need to be called ‘Melton’ - the ‘middle settlement’? Could it be that it was established in competition to somewhere older? Perhaps even a long-established pre-conversion ritual site? Minsters and Valleys PDF www.hoap.co.uk/minsters_and_valleys01.pdf Rethinking Anglo-Saxon shrines PDF www.hoap.co.uk/anglo...

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Salt ways in Leicestershire

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Numerous east-west routes in Leicestershire continue into Lincolnshire and on to the Norfolk coast. They have been used to transport salt from the coast, wool to the coast and by pilgrims going to and from Walsingham. And, most likely, were created by Neolithic farmers. The clues are mostly in minor place-names. update: since this video was uploaded Stuart Evans has written about 'The Iron Age ...