Research at Cambridge

The BYRGA GENIHT team are frequently to be found deep in the archives and muniment rooms of country houses and other stately buildings, however, this week James and James were back at their alma mater to look at much older research material.

James Wenn is a proud member of the not-for-profit research and educational group, Thegns of Mercia. He is often to be seen in his time off dressed as a seventh-century bishop as part of the Thegns' living history weekends at National Trust Sutton Hoo, educating and entertaining the public in service of access and participation to this most important chapter of our heritage story.

Such impressions take a huge amount of behind-the-scenes work, as do the written publications and peer-reviewed material the group produces. Our trip to Cambridge with Thegns members Æd Thompson and Dr Andrew Thompson was by kind invitation of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, who were excellent hosts. Much valuable work was completed.

The museum supports the faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge — the degree studied by HM the King when he was an undergraduate. James studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic (a department within the faculty of English), but remembers fondly taking a borrowed paper in Arch and Anth, and even working over a decade ago in the museum's laboratories!