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Reconstructing the Great Army’s Social World
What discarded objects can and cannot tell us about life within a Viking winter camp
What occurred when an army containing thousands of people stopped for an English winter? Questions of provisioning, equipment repair, medical assistance a...
A Merchant, a Traveller and a Northern Marketplace
What Gilli and al-Ṭurṭūshī can and cannot tell us about Viking trade
Archaeology gives us jetties, workshops, scales, weights, scraps of textiles, coins and broken pieces of silver. It can show where people worked and what passed through t...
Four New Medieval Book Releases for September 2026
This month’s medieval bookshelf ranges from Viking graves and legendary warriors to the making of England and the flavours of the medieval kitchen.
Four recent releases, each offering a different route into the medieval world.
The Medieva...
What Did It Mean to Be a Viking Slave?
Behind the silver, raids and trade routes were people whose labour, movement and bodies belonged to someone else
The Viking slave trade is easier to see from a distance than from inside it.
Two Women, One Ship and the Problem With Oseberg
What happens when one of the richest Viking burials refuses to give us the identities we most want to know?
The Oseberg burial creates a peculiar imbalance. Archaeologists can tell us when the burial chamber was built, when the ship was co...
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