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Today is St Cuthbert’s Day, & - since I am unable to head for Durham or Lindisfarne – how better to celebrate it than by going on an insanely long walk in search of the scattered trace elements of #AngloSaxonLondon? 
Anglo-Saxon London lacks the physical traces that makes a walk round Roman London so satisfying. For all that, though, it offers its own pleasures. Place-names, street-plans, churches: the stamp of the early Middle Ages can be found on them across the city.
“Anglo-Saxon London,” @Rory_Naismith writes, “is not reflected in any monuments that still stand today. Like Conrad’s London, it sits in a well-known landscape but hovers just out of our grasp in the shadow.”
So my walk today will be a grasping after shadows...
So my walk today will be a grasping after shadows...
'Tis the evening before St Cuthbert's Day - one of the most magical days of the year!
Even though I won't be celebratin it as I normally would, by drinking to the memory of the great saint with @jonawils & @PhilippeAuclair, I will not be letting his feast day go by unmarked.
Even though I won't be celebratin it as I normally would, by drinking to the memory of the great saint with @jonawils & @PhilippeAuclair, I will not be letting his feast day go by unmarked.
First - I'm excited to announce that there will be a special St Cuthbert's Day episode of @TheRestHistory, available tomorrow.
Grateful to dour socialist @dcsandbrook for agreeing that we could do it.
Grateful to dour socialist @dcsandbrook for agreeing that we could do it.
Second - I will be doing a monster walk around #AngloSaxonLondon. Not just the old Roman city, not just Lundenwic, not just Edward the Confessor's great abbey, but some of the settlements, assembly points & trading centres that surrounded what was then London.
