Edmund and The Last Kingdom
Have you been watching BBC2’s historical drama The Last Kingdom? Based on the ‘Alfred’ sequence of books by Bernard Cornwell, the series charts the adventures of Uhtred of Bebbanburg – born …
Have you been watching BBC2’s historical drama The Last Kingdom? Based on the ‘Alfred’ sequence of books by Bernard Cornwell, the series charts the adventures of Uhtred of Bebbanburg – born …
Ickworth Park, in its own right, is one of Suffolk’s landscape wonders. Yet it also contains some of the finest ancient trees in the area.
The Tea Party Oak – so …
St Edmund’s Day celebrations continued on 21st November, including the addition of a fine new sculpture in Bury St Edmunds.
I was lucky enough to be invited to the unveiling of …
40-year-old David Cain, from Marlesford, recently set out on a 68-mile pilgrimage across Suffolk trekking from Bury St Edmunds to Dunwich.
He is aiming to recreate a lost legendary route across …
New book about St Edmund profoundly changes our understanding of the East Anglian king and martyr.
‘Edmund: The untold story of St Edmund and his kingdom’ is a new book, available at …
Bury is the heart of the Kingdom of East Anglia, just as Edmund’s shrine was the heart of medieval Bury. Beyond the town, a symbolic landscape unfurls, linking Edmund the sacral king with his East Anglian dominion.
In addition to its historical legacy, Suffolk is also putting itself on Britain’s food map, according to The Telegraph.
Both Bury St Edmunds and Woodbridge were listed in The Telegraph’s Top …
The A12’s bisection of Blythburgh could easily destroy any atmosphere this important village might retain. But walking down Church Road, a sense of expectation builds. Then the roar of traffic …
A wodewose (derived from the Old English wudu – wood or forest) is a ‘wild man’; a hairy forest-dwelling embodiment of nature, closely linked in its symbolism to the green …
The flint round-towered churches of Suffolk are some of its most enigmatic and atmospheric. Sometimes remote and isolated, often hidden from view behind a screen of trees, these towers loom out …