![]() ![]() This is a member only event due to the limited availability of tickets and the reputation of the speaker. Though his focus over the last nine years has been China, Michael has a long-term interest in the pre-Conquest period in England: his first book, In Search of the Dark Ages, was published by BBC Books this year as a revised edition with five new chapters. Michael is Professor of Public History in Manchester and the author of over 120 documentary films and many books. Historian and broadcaster Michael Wood looks at the origins of England in the formative centuries between Roman Britain and the Norman Conquest, when important aspects of English culture emerged: the English state, English law, and the assembly politics that are now seen as the basis of the English parliament.Īlong with portraits of great rulers such as Alfred the Great and Athelstan, Michael demonstrates exciting new manuscript evidence for less well-known figures like Archbishop Theodore of Tarsus and Abbot Hadrian of Canterbury - the ‘man of the African nation’ as Bede calls him - Aethelflaed Lady of the Mercians, and Eadgyth Queen of Germany, arguing that biography is possible for women too in this creative and exciting time. Michael Wood looks at the roots of England in the formative centuries between Roman Britain and the Norman Conquest Maidstone Museum, St Faith's Street, Maidstone, Kent. In search of the Dark Ages… Illustrated talk by historian and broadcaster Michael Wood ![]()
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