Anglo-Saxon Workshop

A visit from our historical interpreters can really bring your Anglo-Saxon topic to life

We love to run workshops about this confusing and volatile period of history

Book now to have Days Gone By bring the birth of the nation we now call England to your classroom

What to Expect

Angles, Saxons, and Jutes

Hear how the people we know as the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes travelled to the Roman province of Britannia to defend it from their enemies

Life on an Anglo-Saxon Farm

What houses would everyday Anglo-Saxon people live in? What did they eat? What jobs did they do?

Christianity

How do we know so much about the Anglo-Saxons? What language did they speak, and how did writing come to be so valuable to our understanding of these enigmatic people?

Conquest

Get your hands on replicas of the weapons used to defend England against the Normans, and hear how the Anglo-Saxon world came crashing down on one misty October morning in 1066

Curriculum Topics

Britain’s settlement by the Anglo-Saxons

Roman withdrawal from Britain in c. AD 410

Anglo-Saxon invasions, settlements and kingdoms: place names and village life

Anglo-Saxon art and culture

Christian conversion – Canterbury, Iona and Lindisfarne

Alfred the Great and Athelstan, first king of England

Anglo-Saxon laws and justice

Edward the Confessor and his death in 1066

William the Conqueror and The Battle of Hastings

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