Professor David Woodman - Æthelstan: The First King of England - Wed 22nd July 4.00pm
Marking the 1100th anniversary of Æthelstan’s coronation, and the upcoming 1100th anniversary of the birth of England, leading Cambridge historian David Woodman explores the reign of England’s founder king, whose achievements of 927, when he conquered the Vikings at York, rival the Norman Conquest in shaping Britain as we know it. Starting with the reign of King Alfred the Great (Æthelstan’s grandfather), he traces the outline of Æthelstan’s life and the ways in which he first created the ‘kingdom of the English’, and went on to create a vision for England on a European scale.
David Woodman is Professor of History at Robinson College, the University of Cambridge. His recent biography of Æthelstan is published by Princeton University Press: The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom. See further
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Marking the 1100th anniversary of Æthelstan’s coronation, and the upcoming 1100th anniversary of the birth of England, leading Cambridge historian David Woodman explores the reign of England’s founder king, whose achievements of 927, when he conquered the Vikings at York, rival the Norman Conquest in shaping Britain as we know it. Starting with the reign of King Alfred the Great (Æthelstan’s grandfather), he traces the outline of Æthelstan’s life and the ways in which he first created the ‘kingdom of the English’, and went on to create a vision for England on a European scale.
David Woodman is Professor of History at Robinson College, the University of Cambridge. His recent biography of Æthelstan is published by Princeton University Press: The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom. See further
Book signing available
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