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Oswald of Northumbria
Oswald of Northumbria (c. 604 - c. 642 CE) was a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon king and saint. He came to power in Northumbria c. 633 or 634 CE following his victory over Cadwallon ap Cadfan, King of Gwynedd. Oswald ruled over the Northumbrian...
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Bede
Bede (c. 673-735 CE) was an English monk, historian, and scholar who lived in the Kingdom of Northumbria. He is at times referred to as the Venerable Bede or Bede the Venerable. He was a monk at the double monastery of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow...
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Kingdom of Northumbria
The Kingdom of Northumbria (c. 604-954 CE) was a political entity in the north of modern-day Britain with Mercia directly to the south, the Kingdoms of the Welsh to the west, and the land of the Picts to the north; the eastern line of the...
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St Oswald & St Aidan
Detail from a window in Newcastle Cathedral of St Oswald who worked closely with St Aidan of Lindisfarne to evangelize the people of Northumbria. St Oswald was king of Northumbria but was killed in 642 by a pagan king, and so is considered...
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Oswald of Northumbria
Detail from a reredos in St Aidan's church in Bamburgh of the martyr and king of Northumbria, St Oswald.
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St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester
The remains of the medieval priory of St Oswald near Glouster (Gloucestershire, Great Britain). The church was originally built c. 900 CE by Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians (r. 911-918 CE), and her husband Aethelred.
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Hilda of Whitby
Hilda of Whitby (also known as Saint Hilda of Whitby, l. 614-680 CE) was the founder and abbess of the monastery at Whitby, Kingdom of Northumbria, Britain. She was a Northumbrian princess who converted to Christianity with the rest of the...
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St Cuthbert with St Oswald's head
This is a detail of an alabaster statuette in the reredos of Newcastle Cathedral.
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The Saxons
The Saxons were a Germanic people of the region north of the Elbe River stretching from Holstein (in modern-day Germany) to the North Sea. The Saxons who migrated to Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries CE along with the Angles, Frisians...
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Ancient Britain
Ancient Britain was a landmass on the northwest of the continent of Europe first occupied by humans c. 800,000 years ago prior to it becoming an island c. 6000 BCE due to flooding which separated it from the mainland. Agriculture began to...