Anglo-Saxon Day, Sutton Bank Visitor Centre, North York Moors, 4 August
Stamford Bridge, East Yorkshire, 28 September
Battle of Old Byland Event, Sutton Bank Visitor Centre, North York Moors, 13 October
Battle of Hastings Wreath Laying, Hastings, October, details TBC
Harold Festival, Waltham Abbey, October, details TBC
Members will also have the chance to join in Zoom socials or visits arranged by their local groups, as well as attend our annual Feast in September. More details of all such events can be found in Wiðowinde.
ICYMI
In case you missed it, here are some of the items we have shared over the past few weeks:
In addition, the Society’s Handbook is available to buy, containing our pick of articles from the magazine. These include, among others, topics such as reading and conversational Old English, an introduction to Anglo-Saxon runes, a discussion of the wics as England’s first towns, and an introduction to the Anglo-Saxon harp, laws, kingship, archery, churches and zoos.
Cost of Handbook: £5 plus postage (varies for UK and overseas)
For the cost of postage and to place an order, please contact the Membership Secretary
Contents – Issue #215 (Autumn 2025)
Articles
9th Century Luxury Living
New Poets of Rum-Ram-Ruf: Pat Masson
The Undley Bracteate
The Laws of Edward the Elder and Æthelstan, part 2
Bilbury Church
The Fellowship Needs You!
Everything you wanted to know about Old English
The Birth of Wessex
Tacitus and the Germania
Photography Competition
Regular features
Editor’s welcome
Secretary’s page
Event report
Companions news
Coin corner
Tidings
Contents – Issue #214 (Summer 2025)
Articles
Of Popes and Kings
Everything you wanted to know about Old English
Wittering Church
The New Poets of RumRamRuf, part 2
The Laws of Edward the Elder and Athelstan, part 1
New Thoughts about Cædmon’s Hymn
Three Centuries of Neglect and Suppression
Faring Forth
Regular Features
Editor’s welcome
Secretary’s page
Companions news
Coin corner
Tidings
Letters
Book reviews
Contents – Issue #213 (Spring 2025)
Articles
The winner of the Ælfred Prize
The Laws of Ælfred
Some Thoughts on the Acerbot
Two Grimsby Churches
A Catchup with Steven A McKay
Our Englisc Tongue
News about the Correspondence Course
Who was St Neot?
The New Poets of Rum-Ram-Ruf
The Fantasy of Arthur and Arthurianism
Meet the Witan
Regular features
Editor’s welcome
Chairman’s report
Secretary’s page
Companions news
Coin corner
Letters
Tidings
Contents – Issue #212 (Winter 2024)
Articles
The 7th Century Laws
The Quest for an Eadgar Penny
War over Benfleet pt 2
St Gregory’s Minster, Kirkdale
Unferth
Borderlands
Changing Seasons
2024 Alfred Prize entries
The True Meaning of Yuletide?
Regular Features
Editor’s welcome
Chairman’s report
Secretary’s page
Companions’ news
Event reports
Coin corner
Tidings
Letters
Contents – Issue #211 (Autumn 2024)
Articles
War over Benfleet pt 1
The Church at Bradwell-on-Sea
Who were the Saxons?
The Scandinavian Settlement in England
Anglo-Saxon Law in the Seventh Century
2024 Alfred Prize open for submissions
Regular Features
Editor’s welcome
Chairman’s report
Secretary’s page
Companions’ news
Coin corner
Tidings
Book reviews
Contents – Issue #210 (Summer 2024)
Articles
Winters in the World part 3
Langford Church
Jutes on both sides
Beowulf: the Swedish Connection
The most glorious King Ceolwulf
Studying the laws of the Anglo-Saxon Kings
2023 Cædmon Prize translation
Regular Features
Editor’s welcome
Chairman’s report
Secretary’s page
Companions’ news
Coin corner
Tidings
Book reviews
Letters
Contents – Issue #209 (Spring 2024)
Articles
The winner of the Cædmon Prize
Why study the Anglo-Saxons?
Winters in the World part 2
Two scholars of Malmesbury Abbey
Corbridge Church
The inferred origins of the Anglo-Saxons
Aldfrith the Learned
Ethelwulf of Wessex
The landscape of the Hwicce
Regular Features
Editor’s welcome
Chairman’s report
Secretary’s page
Companions’ news
Coin corner
Tidings
Book reviews
Contents – Issue #208 (Winter 2023)
Articles
Panel Page: St Hilda and Cædmon
In Search of King Guthrum
How to make an Anglo-Saxon Sword
Ælfric’s Colloquy
Sompting Church
King Æthelric of Bernicia
Winters in the World
The Kingdom of Sussex
A Yuletide Tale
The Cædmon Prize Entries
Regular Features
Editor’s welcome
Chairman’s report
Secretary’s page
Companions’ news
Coin corner
Event reports
Tidings
Contents – Issue #207 (Autumn 2023)
Articles
Between Archaeology and Philology
Two Anglo-Saxon Churches in Lincoln
Maldon: An English Thermopylae?
The Lady of the Mercians
Panel Page: The Anglo-Saxons
Regular Features
Editor’s Welcome
Chairman’s Report
Secretary’s Page
Companions’ News
Coin Corner
Event Reports
Tidings
Book Reviews
Contents – Issue #206 (Summer 2023)
Articles
Crosses of Northern Britain
King Ecgfrith of Northumbria – part 2
Reflections on Shippey’s “Beowulf and the North”
Lavendon Church
Myers and the Anglo-Saxon Settlement Revisited
Hereward the Wake: and English hero for all time
Museum Visit: Ad Gefrin
Translating “The Wife’s Lament”
Days Out with the Old English Zoom Group
Regular Features
Editor’s Welcome
Chairman’s Report
Secretary’s Page
Companion News
Coin Corner
Tidunga – Tidings
Book Reviews
Letters
Contents – Issue #205 (Spring 2023)
Articles
The Winner of the Ælfred Prize
Tolkien, Byrhtnoð and the Battle of Maldon
Working Together
Panel Page: Yorkshire Treasures
Ledsham Church
King Ecgfrith of Northumbria
Herespel for Hugh Soar
Against a Wen
Ad Gefrin Update
Regular Features
Editor’s Welcome
Chairman’s Report
Secretary’s Page
Companion News
Coin Corner
Event Report
Tidunga – Tidings
Book Reviews
Contents – Issue #204 (Winter 2022)
Articles
Wulfhere and Mercian southern hegemony
St Bene’t’s Church, Cambridge
Collecting Anglo-Saxon coins
The birth of East Anglia
Dyeing with woad
DNA research into early Anglo-Saxon England
The Ælfred Prize entries
Regular Features
Editor’s Welcome
Chairman’s Report
Secretary’s Page
Companion News
Coin Corner
Event Reports
Tidunga – Tidings
Contents – Issue #203 (Autumn 2022)
Articles
Panel Page: The Venerable Bede
How do I say that in Old English? (The Ælfred Prize)
