Forthcoming

Forthcoming Events Include:
25th February 2012 – Wuffing Education day seminar on Leechcraft
10th March 2012 – guest speaker at PF event, Bude, Cornwall
16th February 2012 – Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
24th February – Essex Numismatic Society, Chelmsford
24th-25th March – Bishops Wood Country Park

Tamworth Saxon Festival

Book projects:

A paper delivered to the Cambridge conference on mediaeval feasting was published in Journal of Medieval History

Meadhall was issued in a second edition in February 2011

The English Warrior is being expanded for a third edition

The Elder Gods: The Otherworld of Early England was published last summer. It is available direct from Anglo-Saxon Books

Tamworth: Capital of the Kingdom of Mercia  A short book on Tamworth’s Anglo-Saxon history will be published in July 2011-06-12

Working with Linden Currie on a new approach to the Old English Riddles from the Exeter Book

Work continues on a second CD of readings in Old English

To be published in Medieval Warfare I.1, 2011
Stephen Pollington, 'The role of horsemen in Anglo-Saxon warfare - "A nobleman should be on a horse's back"'. Illustrated by Basti Schultz
The phrase ‘Anglo-Saxon cavalry’ is an oxymoron – the evidence from archaeology and from literature indicates that Anglo-Saxon warriors fought on foot in the ranks of the shield-wall. All the great warrior poems, such as Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, and The Capture of the Five Boroughs paint the same picture: the hero goes to meet his enemy on foot, or stands alongside his companions in the shield-wall. Graves containing saddles and horse-gear are also extremely rare in England. But I hope to show that horses did have a use in warfare, and that these animals were valued for their contribution to military operations.