1. Northumbria: the first English state??

2. The Iding Dynasty of Bernicia
IDA ‘THE FLAMEBEARER’ AETHELRIC AETHELFRITH FIRST KING OF NORTHUMBRIA MARRIES PRINCESS ACHAAS OF DEIRA (BRIEF REIGN OF PRINCE EDWIN OF DEIRA) OSWALD THE SAINT

3. Codex Amiantinus

4. Athelfrith of Bernicia 593-616 ‘The Ravening Wolf’

6. BAMBOROUGH – FORTRESS OF ATHELFRITH

7. Degastan 603
Catterick 598
Heronbridge 615

8. NATURAL BORDERS OF NORTHERN BRITAIN
FORTH
CLYDE
NATURAL BORDERS OF NORTHERN BRITAIN
HADRIAN’S WALL
HUMBER
MERSEY
WITHAM
TRENT
THE FENS

9. NORTHERN BRITISH KINGDOMS ON THE EVE OF ATHELFRITH’S CONQUEST C.590
SCOTS
EDINBURGH
NORTHERN BRITISH KINGDOMS ON THE EVE OF ATHELFRITH’S CONQUEST C.590
Lindisfarne Holy Island
BAMBOROUGH
BERNICIA
STRATHCLYDE
CARLISLE
DURHAM
YORK
SUBSTANTIAL TOWN
HADRIAN’S WALL
NATURAL BORDER
POLITCAL BORDER
BRITISH KINGDOM
ANGLO-SAXON KINGDOM
DEIRA
RHEGED
YORK
CATREATH
LINDSAY
ELMET
CHESTER
GWYNEDD
MERCIA
ELMET
LICHFIELD
THETFORD
ANGLIA
DEIRA

10. ATHELFRITH’S NORTHUMBRIA 615 – THE FIRST ENGLISH STATE
SCOTS
EDINBURGH
LINDISFARNE
BAMBOROUGH
BERNICIA
ATHELFRITH’S NORTHUMBRIA 615 – THE FIRST ENGLISH STATE
DURHAM
STRATHCLYDE
ROYAL VIRS
DEIRA
FERTILE LAND
YORK
NORTHUMBRIAN BORDER
HADRIAN’S WALL
LINDSAY
MERCIA
ANGLIA

11. IDING STRONGHOLDS
EDINBURGH
BAMBOROUGH
YORK
DURHAM

12. The Church – key to statehood?
Escomb Church, County Durham (675 AD)

13. OSWALD’S HEAVENLY VICTORY

14. FROM AIDAN’S IONIANS TO WILFRED’S ROMANS

15. THE SCHOLASTIC MONASTERY – FOUNT OF ENGLISH CULTURE

16. BEDE’S ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY (LEFT) AND THE RUTHWELL CROSS (BELOW)

17. CUTHBERT – ANGLO-SAXON ‘CELEBRITY’ SAINT

18. ROYAL GOVERNMENT BEFORE AND AFTER OSWIU AND EGCFRITH (670s ONWARDS)
THE ‘SCIR/BOOKLAND’ SYSTEM
THE ‘VIR’ SYSTEM
THE KING
ROYAL HOUSEHOLD
ROYAL STRONGHOLDS
THE KING
ROYAL HOUSEHOLD
ROYAL STRONGHOLDS
LINDISFARNE ABBEY
ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
VIR
EARLDORMAN’S VIR MONASTERY
BRITISH
LEADERS
THEGNS/PRIESTS
THEGNS
EARLDORMEN WARLORDS

19. LASTING LEGACY: KING EADBERHT AND ARCHBISHOP ECHBERHT’S SCEATTA OF THE FIRST ANGLO-SAXON COINAGE

20. EPITAPH: SAPIENS ALDFRITH AND THE LINDISFARNE GOSPEL

21. STAGNATION AND FALL

22. Videos Barbarians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuM4Auxml98
Monasteries