Woruldhord – Editor's Picks

This week’s Editor’s Pick comes from Emma Payne of CSI: Sittingbourne, a very exciting community archaeology project (the ‘CSI’ stands for ‘Conservation Science Investigation’). You can read more about the project here, and follow the CSI blog here. The artefacts … Continue reading →

This week’s Editor’s Pick touches on a fascinating subject — the uses made by J.R.R. Tolkien of Old English language and literature in the creation of his fantasy Middle Earth. Lynn Forest-Hill has created a very useful Study Guide outlining … Continue reading →

This week’s featured submission comes from an Oxford DPhil student, Kelly Kilpatrick, who has been conducting a photography tour of Anglo-Saxon sites for the Project. The following images and introduction are from her trip to Greensted Church in Chipping Ongar, … Continue reading →

During the closure of the Ashmolean Museum for refitting, an online gallery was created showcasing the Museum’s Anglo-Saxon objects. By very kind permission of the Museum, we have archived this site in complete form within the project. However, we have … Continue reading →

Once again, this has been a very busy week for the Project! The Oxford University English Faculty Library has very kindly given us permission to digitise a number of its papers relating to Anglo-Saxon matters: chief among these is the … Continue reading →

Welcome to the third Woruldhord Editor’s Pick! This has been a very exciting week for the project, with new submissions flooding in from our team of student photographers and a mention in the Times Higher Education Supplement (http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=412770). Our highlighted … Continue reading →

Wes þu hal, and welcome to the second Woruldhord Project Editor’s Pick! Over the past week, we have received a number of exciting  submissions, including an electronic edition of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, a collection of images of Anglo-Saxon beads, … Continue reading →

Welcome to the very first Woruldhord Project Editor’s Pick! In the two weeks that the project has been open for submissions, we have received a number of tremendously exciting contributions, including new editions of texts, archaeological images, teaching handouts and … Continue reading →

As submissions start to come in for the Woruldhord project we will describe some of them to inspire others.