On 12th June 918 Æthelflæd, the ‘Lady of the Mercians’ took her last breath at Tamworth, the capital of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, before being finally laid to rest in St Oswald’s Priory at Gloucester, alongside her husband Aethelred, Lord of the Mercians.
- Æthelflæd 1100
- Æthelflæd: The Last Mercian Queen
- The Battle of Tettenhall
- Æthelflæd Funeral Procession
- The Lost Tomb of Æthelflæd
- Ælfwynn: Second & Last Lady of the Mercians
- The Annals of Æthelflæd
- Æthelstan, First King of All England
Recovering the Danelaw
By 918 the part of The Danelaw south of the Humber had been reconquered by Edward and Æthelflæd, scions of the Great King Alfred. - Alfred's Burhs
- The Mercian Burhs
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| Æthelflæd 1100 Celebrations |
The Uncrowned Queen: A Bibliography
Founder, Fighter, Saxon Queen - Margaret C Jones
Æthelflæd - Tim Clarkson
The Warrior Queen: The Life and Legend of Aethelflaed - Joanna Arman
Mercia: The Rise and Fall of a Kingdom - Annie Whitehead
Vikings
The Viking Art of Navigation
Vikings: Violent Raiders or Extraordinary Explorers?
Vikings: Life and Legend Exhibition
The Real Vikings - A Time Team Special
Mass Viking Execution in Dorset
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July 2013: Celebrating 1100 Years of Stafford
"913. Here God helping, Æthelflæd, Lady of Mercians, went with all the Mercians to Tamworth and then built the stronghold there early in the summer, and afterwards, before Lammas, that at Stafford.” (ASC)
- The Cult of St Bertelin
- St Bertelin's Chapel
- The Location of the Stafford Burh
- A Roman Road in Stafford?
- Iron Age Stafford
- Searching for the Stafford burh
- Staffordshire Heritage Day: Stafford 913
- Stafford Big Burh Day
- Æthelflæd: The Making of a County Town
- King Alfred and the Anglo-Saxons (TV Series)
- Æthelstan, First King of All England
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STAFFORDSHIRE
Saints in Stone
Mercia
Where the Rivers Meet - Catholme, Staffordshire
Warriors, Warlords and Saints: The Anglo Saxon Kingdom of Mercia - John Hunt
Local News:
Shepherd's Monument Solved - Again!
Shepherd's Monument Shugborough
Abbots Bromley Horn Dance
Barlaston Hoard Declared as Treasure
The Staffordshire Hoard comes to Stafford July - September 2016
The Staffordshire Saxon Statue
Old Oswestry Hillfort under threat
Saxon period butter churn lid found near Stafford
The Mysterious Disappearance of the 9th Legion: A SAMSAS lecture by Dr Richard Fear 17/04/15
Local Groups:
Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society
Stafford and Mid Staffs Archaeological Society
Staffordshire Heritage Group
Friends of Letocetum - Wall Roman site
Clas Merdin: Tales from the Enchanted Island
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