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2023

11 Jan - University of York York Talks Voyage of Discovery
20 Apr - Sutton Hoo Ship's Company Woodbridge WITAN 4
2 Jun - Woodbridge/National Trust Anglo-Saxon Festival. Talks on Myth and Magic; What Saxons wore; Anglo-Saxon Seafaring
10 Jun - University of York Festival of Ideas. Flagship of Early England: The Sutton Hoo Experimental Ship
27 Oct - Little Ouseburn Village Sutton Hoo and its ship
24 Nov - Woodbridge The Sutton Hoo Ship's Company Sicily in Transition Highlights 2023

2022

19 Jan - University of Durham. Sicily in Transition: the changing lives of farmers, merchants and their families
27 Jan - University of York. Highlights January 2022
4 Mar - The Sutton Hoo Ship's Company
20 May - Plain English Design Ltd The Sutton Hoo Ship
27 May - University of Rome Tor Vergata. Conference on Hard Sciences History and the archaeology of the Middle Ages. Towards new paradigms? (Joined up analyses)
21 June - University of York Festival of Ideas (Sutton Hoo 2022. New research on the Mound 1 Ship, its form and purpose) public zoom (500 tickets sold)
31 Aug - University of Durham Worked in Stone Early Medieval sculpture and its context. Keynote speaker: Carved stone monuments as political actors
23 Oct - University of Rome Tor Vergata (with Alessandra Molinari) 60min live podcast on Sicily in Transition. Presentation to students on Sutton Hoo Experimental Ship
7 Nov - Cambridge Antiquarian Society The Sutton Hoo Experimental Ship
22Nov - Yorkshire Philosophical Society. The Sutton Hoo Experimental Ship

2021

2 Feb - Canterbury University of Kent. Remembering the dead in Byzantine Sicily (public zoom lecture)
3 Feb - Archaeological Institute of America, Boston Mass. Meet Martin Carver (zoom interview)
24 Feb - Sutton Hoo's story goes deeper than "The Dig" Sapiens Anthropology Magazine (112,402 views in first four days)
25 Mar - Società di Archeologia Medievale , Italy. Travelling to the Underworld. Changing itineraries in Burial archaeology (public zoom lecture)
14 Apr - Friends of Westminster Cathedral The Sutton Hoo Story (public zoom lecture)
13 May - Archaeological Institute of America. Boston Mass. The real Sutton Hoo Story - exploring (public zoom lecture; 1900 registrations)
14 May - Dig Ventures. Sutton Hoo methods and monuments (zoom lecture and open discussion. 750 registrations)
24 Jun -Archaeological Institute of America, Boston Mass. Sutton Hoo - interpretations: East Anglia, Europe and the ship (public zoom lecture; 1700 registrations)
9 Sep -EAA Conference Kiel (1) Round Table (2) Islamic burials in Sicily (3) aDNA Medieval Portmahomack
12 Sep - Sutton Hoo Society Guides. New adventures
21 Sep - Sutton Hoo Ship's Company Address to the First meeting of the WITAN
7 Oct - Cardiff Archaeological Society: The Sutton Hoo Mound 1 ship, charcater, context and a new reality
18 Oct - Institute of Archaeology Oxford: new research in the Sutton Hoo Mound 1 ship
19 Oct -Centre for Migration Studies, University of British Columbia? Genetics and memorials: People and their remembrance in Byzantine, Islamic and Norman Sicily
28 Oct -Bradford-on-Avon Church and Museum. New research on Sutton Hoo

2020

25 Jan - Hull East Riding Archaeology Society: Sutton Hoo
20 Apr - Rome Tor Vergata: Remembering the Dead in Medieval Sicily [virtual]
22 May - University of York: Cemeteries of Medieval Sicily [virtual]
26 Aug - EAA Budapest Virtual Conference: The ERC Advanced Grant, my experience
28 Aug - EAA Budapest Virtual Conference: Remembering the Dead in Sicily 550-1250: Identities, mobility and faith
30 Aug - EAA Budapest Virtual Conference: Stone monuments as actors in Medieval Britain.
11 Dec - Podcast for BBC. "The Dig" The real story. (53,000 downloads in first 24 hours)

2019

16 Feb - Aldborough N Yorks on Sicily
2 Apr - Harvard University Essays in Transition
3 Apr - Harvard University Wearing wealth
8 May - University of York 40th Anniversary lecture on Sutton Hoo
10 May - University of Durham Rosemary Cramp 90th Birthday address
27 May - University of Oxford Early Medieval cemeteries in Sicily
31 May - King's College London Mediterranean urban workshop on Palermo
1 Jun - Sutton Hoo. English Companions on Sutton Hoo
14 Jun - University of York 40th Anniversary celebration lecture
15 jun - University of York Festival of Ideas presentations and lecture on Sicily
8-11Jul - École Française de Rome. Plenary Seminar on SICTRANSIT Project
4 Sep - Bern European Archaeology Association Conference Normans in Sicily
9 Sep - Marlborough. Marlborough Mound Trust Annual Lecture. Actors in the Landscape
26 Sep - Castronovo di Sicily. End of campaign address to the town
9 Oct - Woodbridge Suffolk. Ship's Company seminar of experimental ships
17 Oct - University of St Andrews on Formative Britain

2018

3 Feb - UCL Islamic Archaeology Conference
13 Feb - British School at Rome Monastic Landscapes
18 Apr - Venice Ca' Foscari Tavola Rotunda on rescue archaeology
19 Apr - Venice Ca' Foscari Formative Britain
28 May - University of Salento at Lecce sictransit
29 May - University of Salento at Lecce Sutton Hoo
16 Jun - York Festival of Ideas sictransit
24 Jun - Sutton Hoo Historia Five alpha females
26 Jun - Palermo Archaeozoology Conference sictransit
5 Jul - Leeds IMC Normans in Sicily and England
9 -12 Jul - Sictransit Plenary Seminar
13 Jul - Tamworth Literary Festival Aethelflaeda in Stafford
5 Sep - Barcelona European Archaeology Association Sicily in Transition
27 Sep - Castronovo di Sicilia End of season address to town
30 Oct - Italian Institute London, Sicily in transition
14 Dec - University of Pisa Sicily early medieval cemeteries

2017

22 Feb - Sainsbury Centre Sutton Hoo and its public*
10 Mar - Oxford Movement and Conflict PG conference. Sictransit
28 Mar -University of Rome 2 Tor Vergata. Portmahomack project
10 April- Edinburgh Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Portmahomack project
11 April - Inverness Society of Antiquaries. Portmahomack project
26 May - Jarrow Lecture (Chair)
30 Jun - Oxford Normans in the North Conference
5 Oct - Castronovo di Sicilia. End of season talk to the town.
15 Oct - Sutton Hoo. National Trust Visitor Centre. Sutton Hoo and its world context
4 Nov - Jarrow. Jarrow Hall Visitor Centre. Sutton Hoo and its context
6 Nov - Cambridge Antiquarians. Sictransit
17 Nov Rome Ecole Française. Conference on 7-12th century amphorae
8 Dec - York Normans in Sicily
14 Dec - Newcastle Sictransit – Byzantine aspects
20 Dec - Hull East Riding Archaeological Society – Sicily in Transition.

2016

21 Jan - London Nautical College. Building the Sutton Hoo Replica ship
21 Jan - Blue Guides. The Staffordshire Hoard
8 Mar - Bradford University; Portmahomack.
29 Mar - Rannoch Archaeology Society; Portmahomack
1 April - Dornoch Conference. Easter Ross and Europe
12 May - Palermo Press Conference . Sicily in Transition
25 Jun - London British Museum Conference. Sicily in Transition
7 Jul - York. Sicily in Transition Project Launch
16 Aug - Edinburgh Book Festival. Portmahomack
21 Sep - Castronovo Town Hall. End of season talk
16 Oct - Sutton Hoo Visitor Centre. Sutton Hoo
6 Dec - UCL. Accordia Lecture. Sicily in Transition

2015

4 Mar - University of Amsterdam. Portmahomack
7-14 Apr - King Saud University Riyadh Saudi Arabia. Field Archaeology
17 Apr - Huddersfield Archaeology Society. Sutton Hoo
3 May - Palermo. With Alessandra Molinari. Sicily Project
8 Dec - Frankfurt. Department of Archaeology. Ideology In early Medieval Europe.

2014

1 Mar - UCL Archaeology Live. Current Archaeology. Sutton Hoo
24 Mar - Edinburgh St Colman’s Church, Portmahomack
22 May - Dublin Royal Irish Academy. Launch of Early Medieval Excavations (O’Sullivan et al)
30 Jun - Ravenna- Senigallia Preventative Archaeology: evaluation
4 Oct - Midwest Archaeology Congress at Champaign, Illinois. Key note on Sutton Hoo
17-18 Oct - Bury St Edmund’s. CBA weekend: Sutton Hoo Talk and site tour
5 Nov - British Museum Introduction to Sutton Hoo for the Blue Guides

2013

4 Feb - York Dept Burial Mounds and politics
11 Feb - York Dept Towns and monasteries
23 Feb - Edinburgh; Early Medieval Scotland; Portmahomack
1 Mar - London UCL Current Archaeology Conference keynote 'Around the world with a pointed trowel'
8 Apr - Padova Dip Archeologia. World Excavation
10 Apr - Padova Reinventing the town
11 Apr - Bologna World excavation; Reinventing the town
1 May - Bangor Dept of Archaeology; Portmahomack and the continent
20 May Tain, Highlands; Portmahomack
18 Sep - Padova: how to publish [with Madeleine Hummler]
2 Nov - Edinburgh Arch Soc Five Alpha Females
21 Nov - Ghent Vlaamse Werkgroep Mediëvistiek. Commerce and Cult [Pirenne Lecture for 2013]
22 Nov - Brussels UVB Making Archaeology Happen
12 Dec - Durham Dept of Archaeology Commerce and cult

2012

14 Jan - Osaka, Japan; World Heritage bid team 'The study of Burial mounds'
15 Jan - Osaka, Japan; Public Meeting in Town Hall 'The Meaning of Burial mounds'
17 Jan - Kyoto, Japan; Ritsumeikan University Field Archaeology in the 21st century
22 Feb - York, Institute for Archaeologists, Making Archaeology Happen
6 Mar - Edinburgh, First Millennium Research Group The Pictish Village
7 Mar - Aberdeen, Department of Archaeology, The Pictish Village
8 Mar - Aberdeen, Department of Archaeology, Professional prospects
14 Mar - Sutton Hoo Visitor Centre Millionth Visitor Celebration, Monumental burial mounds of Japan
19 Mar - London, Institute of Archaeology, panelist, Archaeology in the next decade
26 Mar - Norway, Sandfjord. Gokstad seminar
11 Apr - Edinburgh, Historic Scotland, Making Archaeology Happen
19 Apr - Oxford Town Hall, Institute for Archaeologists,mock Court of Inquiry
23 Apr - Belfast, Ulster Archaeology Society, Making Archaeology Happen
24 Apr - Belfast, Queen's University, Portmahomack
12 May -Cambridge, Christianisation of Scotland
25 May - Croatia, Osor, Island Monasticsim, Early Scottish Monasteries
1 Jun - York, Monumental burial and world heritage in Japan
15 Jun - York, Archaeological Practice
20 Jun - BBC, Recorded talks on Anglo-Saxon Portraits for Radio 3
25 Jun - Edinburgh, First Millennium Group, Portmahomack
28 Jun - Blairgowrie, Glen Shee research group, The Pictish House
17 Jul - Norwich, UEA, Meaning of burial mounds
25 Jul - Flag Fen, Dig Ventures, Field Archaeology today
27-31 Aug - Tallin and Helsinki, Launch of MERC at EAA; Public presentations on 28, 29, 30 Aug
5 Sep - Durham, Sachsensymposion, The Pictish House
30 October - Moscow Burial Mounds and State Formation
22 Nov - York Club A Field Marshall in the family
28 Nov - Cambridge HARN A Personal History
5 Dec - Nottingham Institute for Medieval Research Public Seminar Britain's Pagan Roots

2011

26 Jan - Department of Archaeology, Nottingham Seminar on Late Saxon burhs; Public Lecture on Sutton Hoo
7 Apr - Department of Archaeology, Liverpool University; seminar on Portmahomack
7 May- Sutton Hoo Society Public Lecture on New thoughts about Anglo-Saxon paganism
24 May - University of Vitoria-Gastiez, Spain Field Archaeology in the 21st century
4 June - NMS, David Clarke farewell conference: Sculpture in action
24 Aug - NRA, Dublin; annual keynote lecture
22 Sep - The Best in Heritage, Dubrovnik; presenting the Tarbat Discovery Programme
24 Sep - ASNAC Cambridge Conference on Conversion; Christianisation in Pictland
30 Sep - York Archaeology Forum Urbanism conference: keynote: Urban archaeology: the next decade.
27 Oct - Aarhus University 40th anniversary celebration: launch of Archaeology of Medieval Europe
4 Nov - Paris. XXXIIe Journées Internationales d’Archéologie Mérovingienne Religion and Politics at Sutton Hoo
8-16 Nov - Smithsonian Institution Lecturer on Celebrity Equinox (Cruise ship) in the Aegean: Public Lectures on: Bronze Age Wars, The Voyage of Odysseus, The Triumph of Athens, Around the Seven Wonders, Diggers and Explorers.
23 Nov - Cambridge Field Club. Digging in the 21st Century
1 Dec - York University Arch Soc Digging in the 21st century

2010

3 Feb - Chester, University (Monasteries and prehistory); Museum (Mercian burhs)
8 Feb - Oxford Archaeology Society: Four windows on Early Britain
22 Feb - Manchester, Anglo-Saxon Studies: Anglo-Saxon Stafford
23-25 Apr - Edinburgh Rhind Lectures for 2010: Design versus Dogma
1 May - Maritime Heritage – strategy. Early Medieval Presentation, University of Southampton
28 Nov - UCD EMAP Dublin Early Medieval monasticism and prehistory
6 Dec - Plymouth Archaeology Society: Anglo-Saxon Stafford
7 Dec - Newcastle University Archaeology Society: Excavation in the 21st century
16 Dec - Cornwall Archaeology Society: Portmahomack

2009

24 Jan - York Presentation of Else Roesdahl as honorary doctor
20 Feb - Stafford Archaeology Society: Stafford excavations
23 Feb - London St Paul’s School: Origins of kingdoms
25 Feb - Aberdeen Archaeology Department: Monasteries and prehistory
5 Mar - Durham, Archaeology Department Seminar: Monasteries and prehistory
21 Mar - Oxford, Wolfson College. Oxford Book Club (Dorothy Dunnett): Monasteries and prehistory
14 Apr - Kilmartin, Argyll: Monasteries and prehistory
15 Apr - Orkney College, Kirkwall (Monasteries and prehistory) and public lecture on Portmahomack
16 Apr - Brora, Brora Society: Portmahomack
20 Apr - Uppsala Museum, Sweden: Ship burial
11 May - Prague, Inst of Arch (Antiquity)
22 May - Sheffield, PG student conference (Summing up)
30 Jun - St John’s Newfoundland ISAS plenary (The Anglo-Saxons and the Sea)
2 Aug - Harvard, Cambridge Mass. Radcliffe Institute Seminar Nocturnal Histories (Spirituality and material culture)
13 Oct - Edinburgh University Archaeology Society (Origins of Scottish monasteries)
21 Oct - HEA day school for post-graduates, Reading (publishing)
31 Oct - Woodbridge Toast to the Sutton Hoo Society
5 Nov - Boston College: Portmahomack
7 Nov - Boston College William Homer Haskins Lecturer (Early Medieval monumentality)
17 Nov - Sandefjord, Norway Public Lecture: Sutton Hoo
18 Nov - Sandefjord Gokstad seminar (Digging for ritual)
26 Nov - 20 Dec - Hanoi (IPPA), Hong Kong, Adelaide (AAA), Durham (TAG) (Antiquity)

2008

10 Feb - British Museum Archaeology 2008. Public Lecture (Portmahomack)
4 Apr - Dublin UCD (Portmahomack)
8 Apr - Rome, Uni Roma 2 Tor Vergata (Field Archaeology)
21 Apr - Aarhus. Post-Graduate seminar on publication
1 May - Dublin (Trinity College) J M Kemble Lecture on Anglo-Saxon burial rites
3 May - Olympia London. Who do you think you are? Public Lecture: Sutton Hoo
23 May - Jarrow Lecture 2008: Portmahomack
16 Oct - University of West of Scotland. Launch of Inchmarnock book (Monasteries and prehistory)
18 Oct - Inverness (Monasteries and prehistory)
24 Oct - York Research Seminar (Antiquity)
25 Oct - Woodbridge Sutton Hoo Society (Chair)
28 Oct - Cambridge Early Medieval Studies Group (Monasteries and prehistory)
15 Nov - Leicester Urbanism conference (winding up)
5 Dec - London Birkbeck (Monasteries and prehistory)

2007

1 Feb - Pocklington School (Archaeology)
2 Mar - Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (Future of Journals)
23 Mar - Society for Medieval Archaeology 50th at Oxford (Northern Nations)
4 Apr - IFA “Great Excavations”: Sutton Hoo
20 Jul - Groam House Lecture for 200: Portmahomack
3 Sep - Paris. Medieval Europe 2007 (plenary)
29 Sep - Edinburgh. Society for Church Archaeology (Story of St Colman’s Church, 700-2007)

2006

8 Jan - Royal Archaeological Institute: Tarbat
11 Feb - Keynote speaker Northumbria Conference Newcastle
17 Feb - Sutton Hoo Society “Publishing Sutton Hoo”
8 Mar - UCL Lecture on AHM at Sutton Hoo
22 Apr - Stockholm conference for European editors “The Future of Antiquity”
20 May - Speaker at Digging up the Dark Ages (Exeter)
1 Jun - British Museum Seminar: Tarbat.
12 Jul - IMC, Leeds, Speaker on Tarbat
15 Aug - Broadcast “Lost Gospels of the Picts” Radio 3 proms interval feature
15 Sep - Irish Heritage Council think tank at Royal Irish Academy invited speaker “Academy and Profession- some visions”
14 Oct - Anglo-Saxon Paganism – Sutton Hoo Society Conference
25-6 Oct - Harvard University guest lecturer: Sutton Hoo
27 Oct - Derbyshire Archaeology Society: Sutton Hoo
31 Oct - London Medieval Society: Tarbat
15 Nov - Scott Wilson day school (Research in CRM)

2005

24 Jan - UCL Research Seminar on Tarbat
1 Feb - Hull Literary and Philosophical Society on Sutton Hoo
9 Mar - Seminar at UCL Heritage Management at Sutton Hoo
16 Mar - Gloucester Archaeological Society Annual Lecture Cirencester (Sutton Hoo)
22 Mar - Merchant Adventurers Public Science Lecture, York: Sutton Hoo and the Origins of Europe
1 Apr - Oxford Conference on Anglo-Saxon Religion North Sea Palaver
27 Apr - Launch of the AHRC (party)
24 Apr - AHRC Meeting on Publication at the British Academy
25 Apr - NCUP Meeting on Publication at King’s College London
27 Apr - Invited Lecture on Antiquity at Publication Conference (UCL)
13 Aug - Invited Public Lecture on Tarbat at Portmahomack
27 Aug - Invited Lecture on Tarbat at Insular Art Conference TCD
6 Sep - Film with Granada TV “The Celts”
9 Sep - Chair Barrow research session at EAA, Cork
9 Sep - Lecture on Antiquity at EAA, Cork

2004

17 Mar - UCL Heritage Management course: Sutton Hoo
20 Mar - Perth Pictish Conference: Tarbat
1 Apr - Aldebugh Festival Club: Sutton Hoo
29 Apr - Med Europe 2007 Committee
19 Jun - Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland: Tarbat
2 Jul - Colin Renfrew’s Farewell Party
12 Aug - Groam House Museum: Tarbat
19 Aug - Tarbat Historic Trust: St Colman’s Church
28 Aug - Tarbat Historic Trust: Tarbat
10 Sep - Exeter BAAS Conference: Tarbat
15 Sep - Sachsensymposium Cambridge: Sutton Hoo
16 Oct - Sutton Hoo Society conference
21 Oct - Leeds Art Gallery: Sutton Hoo

2003

26 Feb - UCD: Tarbat
27 Feb - UCD: Sutton Hoo
25 Mar - Centre For Medieval Studies Public Lectures, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque: Sutton Hoo
27 Mar - as above: Tarbat
3 Mar - Society for Medieval Archaeology/Historic Scotland: Sculpture at Tarbat
14 Aug - Kincardine Church
7 Sep - Sachsensymposium (Paris): North Sea monumentality (en français)
13 Oct - Krakow (Poland): Burial Mound archaeology
17 Oct - Kiel (Germany): Sutton Hoo
6 Nov - Hull Historical Association: Sutton Hoo
5 Dec - Teesside Archaeological Society, Middlesborough: Sutton Hoo

2002

15 Feb - Sutton Hoo Society Annual Lecture North Sea Burial rites
21 Feb - St Andrews University Arch Soc Seminar: Tarbat
22 Feb - Moray Society Elgin Museum: Tarbat
28 Feb - Hosted S of A meeting in York
1 Mar - BBC interview. Antiquity interview
13 Mar - Sutton Hoo Visitor Centre opened by Seamus Heaney. Address by MOHC
18 Apr - Glasgow Arch Soc: Tarbat
29 May - IPP 50 year celebration Amsterdam. North Sea politics
11 Sep - Keynote Speaker Medieval Europe 2002 Basel. Plenary Session Discussant
7-11 Oct - Host to Polish Academy delegation
12 Oct - Sutton Hoo Society conference
25 Nov - King’s College London: Sutton Hoo
26 Nov - Oxford University Arch Soc: Sutton Hoo
28 Nov - Research Seminar Reading University: Tarbat
29 Nov - University of Uppsala: Tarbat
30 Nov - University of Uppsala. Public examiner for Neil Price The Viking Way

2001

21 Mar - Public Lecture on the Sutton Hoo excavations at The Kings of the North Sea Euro-Exhibition. Laing Gallery, Newcastle.
19 Apr - Conference on Public History organised by Simon Ditchfield at York
3 May - Chair and speak on Tarbat at Kalamazoo, W Michigan Univ, USA
15-17 Jun - Planning meeting for keynote speakers at the third Medieval Europe Conference at Basel, Switzerland.
13 Jul - Presented Professor Michael Müller-Wille (University of Kiel, Germany) as honorary graduand of the University of York.
15 Jul - 5 Sep - Tarbat
10 Aug - Keynote speaker at the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists Conference, Helsinki
6 Sep - Keynote speaker at the Orkney in the Iron Age conference in Orkney.
25 Sep - Inverness Highlands and Islands Strategy Meeting: (Heritage 2007)
12 Oct - Polish Academy, Warsaw. (Archaeological procurement and the research dividend)
2 Nov - Huddersfield Archaeological Society (Tarbat)
15 Nov - British Museum Medieval Seminars (Tarbat)
19 Nov - Edinburgh Historic Scotland “Remembering the dead at Tarbat”

2000

Conference Organizer (with Simon Trafford and Jane Grenville) at King’s Manor, York: The Age of Conversion in Northern Europe.
Public Lecture Series: Heritage and the Holy Land today
Public lectures on Tarbat at: Portmahomack, Wick, Inverness, Edinburgh, London [BAA], Dublin]
Otto the Great Conference at Magdeburg, Germany: Spoke on Politics and Cultures in Tenth Century Britain