Jane Outram, in Viking dress, waiting for the arrival of 600 visitors Don’t be deceived by the tranquil appearance of the Bradford Vikings activity at the Orkney International Science Festival….

Both the academic and the public engagement aspects of the project have been busy recently with the North Atlantic Biocultural Organisation (NABO) meeting in Iceland and the Festival of British…

Research progress continues apace, with one eye on the clock as the project enters its last few months. The focus recently has been on how to present and interpret the…

As discussed in the last post, one of the main activities this month has been contributing to the Nordic Theoretical Archaeology Group conference.  This was followed by a rather more…

After the hectic rush of activities last month, the last couple of weeks have been spent in rather more measured contemplation of Viking Age dates. Whilst there are lots of…

A hectic February has seen Bradford Vikings venturing away from the computer and off to York, Edinburgh and Saltaire, to discuss Vikings with audiences of all ages and levels of…

Recent project work has been a heady mix of data entry and shopping. Never a dull moment in academic research! Having established a database where data both goes in and…

Here’s the latest update from the Bradford Vikings project, where I have been filling databases, dining out at the Ragnarök Café and preparing for the Jorvik Viking Festival. It was…

The Bradford Vikings project is well underway now and so I thought I would give you an idea of some aspects of the dating research and the outreach work. I…