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Anglo-Saxon women with power and influence

30 May 2020 By Annie Whitehead

Annie Whitehead, historian and novelist, writes about the women who had power and influence in Anglo-Saxon England. Pre-Conquest women are rarely written about, so for my new book, Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon England, I decided to track them down and tell their stories. The original plan was to categorise them – queens, abbesses, witches, […]

In Search of Mercia

11 September 2018 By Annie Whitehead

Annie Whitehead on research roadblocks, and writing history when the evidence is elusive.  I spend my life writing about the characters who inhabited ancient Mercia. The history of this Anglo-Saxon kingdom is full of colourful characters, some familiar – Lady Godiva and Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians – and some not so well-known, but no […]

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