The lecture was established in memory of John Levitt, formerly senior lecturer in adult education who taught classes, primarily in English. His library on Anglo-Saxon history, language and literature is housed in the Warrilow room in the Department and is made available to staff, postgraduate students and members of the Keele Old English class which has continued since his death as an independent class, tutored by Peter Graystone. Both Andrew Sargent and Anthony Mansfield, as Keele postgraduates, were members of the class and used it to add to their Old English. There have been eight lectures so far. 

 

 

 

THE 2018 LECTURE

The 2018 lecture will be given by Dr Clare Downham of Liverpool University on 27 October 2018 on the subject 'Aethleflaed, Lady of the Mercians'.

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Clare Downham studied medieval history at St Andrews University and Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Cambridge University before becoming a research scholar at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and Lecturer in Celtic and History at Aberdeen University. She moved to Liverpool University in 2010 where she is now Senior Lecturer in Irish Studies. The author of many articles and papers focusing on Viking Age history and contact across the Irish Sea in the Middle Ages, her acclaimed book 'Viking Kings of Britain and Ireland: The Dynasty of Ivarr to AD 1014' was published in 2007. Her most recent book, 'Medieval Ireland AD 400-1500', came out last year.

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