Event Details

A full day Study Event held at Carlisle's Tullie House Museum with a range of speakers looking at the Anglo-Scottish border region and its links with a wider northern world. This event is for an in-person audience only and will not be recorded.

Carlisle - the ‘Great Border City’ – offers an ideal vantage point for surveying the Anglo-Scottish border region and its links with a wider northern world. Papers include the Scottish Society for Northern Studies’ annual Hermann Pálsson lecture, this year delivered by Dr Colleen Batey, a leading specialist in the study of Viking-Age Scotland. Other speakers will range across the medieval period, beginning in the last days of the Northumbrian and Cumbrian kingdoms, entities that stretched across the future Anglo-Scottish border. We’ll cover the changes of the Viking Age and the development of the border itself, ending in the fourteenth century - the era of the Wars of Independence. Subject to confirmation from Tullie House nearer the time (in light of ongoing building works) we hope that participants will be able to visit the Viking-Age and medieval displays in the Border Gallery on the first floor of the museum.

9.30 am Assemble Tullie House Museum (tea/coffee is not served at the beginning of the day –

but will be available mid-morning)

9.45-9.55 Welcome remarks – Dr Oliver Wilkinson (Regional Heritage Centre, Lancaster University) and Prof Clare Downham (Scottish Society for Northern Studies/University of Liverpool)

10.00 – 11.00 The Hermann Pálsson lecture: A Life without Borders? The Viking and Late Norse Northern Isles of Scotland - Dr Colleen E. Batey (Honorary Research Fellow University of the Highlands and Islands; University of Durham)

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee/tea & biscuits (Function room)

11.30 -12.15 Jeux sans Frontières : The Great Army’s Great Game in Northern Britain– Dr Tom Horne

12.15 – 1.30 Lunch (not included but there are many options nearby. Delegates may have the chance to explore the Viking-Age and medieval galleries on the first floor of Tullie House, depending on building works - subject to confirmation from the museum)

1.30 – 2.15 Earl Siward and Anglo-Scottish Relations in the Eleventh Century – Prof Fiona Edmonds (Lancaster University)

2.15 - 3.00 The Negotiation of a National Border in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries – Dr Matthew Hammond (University of Hull)

3.00 – 3.30 Coffee/tea & biscuits (Function room)

3.30 -4.15 Navigating Allegiance across an Evolving Border: Anglo-Scottish Ecclesiastical Networks in the

Mid-Fourteenth Century – Dr Jenny McHugh (Lancaster University)

4.15pm End of event