This paper examines the twelfth-century Latin poem known as the Song of the Death of Somerled and argues that contrary to previous interpretations the action in the poem covers two separate events eleven years apart; a successful attack on Glasgow in 1153 and a the final battle in which Somerled dies in 1164.

This article deploys both textual and archaeological evidence to question the assumption that retained court poets existed in pre-Viking Age Ireland.

This paper revisits the idea that there was a direct link between Sweden and the the rites and materials found in the cemetery at Sutton Hoo. It argues instead that both Sweden and and East Anglia were frontier regions on the edge of a core located in Danish territories.

This essay reflects on the developments in our understanding of the Pictish Church since Kathleen Hughes visited the topic half a century ago.

A brief historical interpretation based upon the excavations carried out at the Northumbrian ecclesiastical site at Auldhame in East Lothian.

This chapter looks at the use of the word plebs in a number of Late Antique texts thought to be written by Britons and discusses what this reveals about the social and ecclesiastical conditions amongst the Britons in the fifth and sixth centuries.

This paper attempts to look at the evidence for English ideas about their own national origins in the period before Bede.

This short note cautions against essentialist ways of thinking about the Picts and reminds readers that the term itself is an exonym and that there is little or no evidence that the people we call Picts had any self identification as a group.

A discussion of the educational context of Columbanus in and around Bangor and Moville in the sixth century.

A chapter in volume 1 of the Cambridge History of Ireland