Recent publications
2011 ‘The Weight of Necklaces’: some insights into the wearing of women’s jewellery from Middle Saxon written sources’. In: S. Brookes, S. Harrington and A.Reynolds (eds), Studies in Early Anglo-Saxon Art and Archaeology: Papers in Honour of Martin G. Welch, pp 106-11. British Archaeological Reports British Series 527 Oxford: Archaeopress.
2010 ‘Adomnán at the court of King Aldfrith’. In: J. Wooding et al.(eds), Adomnán of Iona. Theologian, Lawmaker, Peacemaker, pp 36-50. Dublin: Four courts Press.
2010 ‘The Oliver’s Battery Hanging-Bowl burial from Winchester and its Place in the Early History of Wessex’. In: M. Henig and N. Ramsay (eds), Intersections: The Archaeology and History of Christianity in England, 400-1200. Essays in Honour of Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjǿlbye Biddle, pp. 77-86. British Archaeological Reports British Series 505. Oxford: Archaeopress.
2010 ‘The representation of early West Saxon history in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle’. In: A. Jorgens (ed), Reading the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Language, Literature and History, pp 141-60 Turnhout: Brepols.
Recent public lectures
2 March 2011 ‘Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons’, Isle of Wight branch of the Historical Association
14 October 2010 ‘The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria’, Basingstoke Archaeology and History Society.
Academic lectures 2011
7 March, Annual Toller Lecture, University of Manchester: ‘King Alfred and the Traditions of Anglo-Saxon Kingship’.
25-27 March, Rewley House, Oxford: ‘Assembles and the Origins of Anglo-Saxon Kingship’, Dept. of Continuing Education conference ‘Anglo-Saxon Places of Power, Governance and Authority’.
Recent conference papers
14 March 2011, Museum of Childhood, London: ‘Food and Children in the Early Middle Ages’. At 'Eat your Greens. Children and Food' (conference run in conjunction with Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past).
September 2010 ‘The origins of Anglo-Saxon kingship in a North Sea context’. The 61st International Sachsensymposion, Development of Leadership and Elites in the First Millennium AD, at Museum Sønderjylland, Haderslev, Denmark.