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October 2, 2008 at 10:34 pm (Cadwallon of Gwynedd, East Anglia, Gwynedd, Historia Brittonum, Kent, King Æthelfrith, Medieval Kings, Mercia, Merovingians, Northumbria, Venerable Bede, Wessex, lost kingdoms) As I worked on this month’s lost kingdom, my mind wondered on to the grandfather effect.

I gave a presentation yesterday at Northumbria University’s School of Design’s staff conference called Designing Education’s Future: online, collaborative, playful and socially aware. I just found out it has been featured on Slideshare, which is always good to hear.

LOTUS EIGNE CONCEPT-with a high level of practicality.» The Lotus Eigne is an electric sportscar concept targeted to young families which combines the typical sportiness of Lotus models with a high level of practicality.

Happy St. Oswald’s Day! It has been a while since I wrote but I can’t miss the feast of St. Oswald. King Oswald What little time I have had for medieval topics this summer has been focused on the plague, so this brings to mind the unique place King Oswald has in Anglo-Saxon plague history.

A few weeks ago I gave a talk called The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be to the Associate Deans over at Northumbria University. I thought I’d blogged about it with the podcast of the recording I made there, but it seems I forgot.

You might be wondering, who is Abbot Berhthun and why should we care about him? First of all, he was someone known and respected by Bede and second, we owe practically everything we know about St John of Beverly to Berhthun.

The period between 400 AD and 800 AD in Britain was one of unprecedented change. The Romans, who had occupied most of southern Britain, troubled by concerned on the continental mainland, departed and waves of Germanic peoples, principally Angles, Saxons and Jutes, arrived on the country’s eastern and southern shores.

In the beauty of an October fall, a group of men and women gathered from around the world to talk about a sustainable journey for missional leaders in a fragmented and fragmenting world. In a world of deep complexity, facing problems for which there are no clear answers, with maps which are outdated

Design is a flourishing sector in North East England. However, the concept of design is being taken much further, by being incorporated into many aspects of business, public services and life in the region ? does your business integrate with design? North East England has been recognised as a UK flagship for good design.

I saw Prince Caspian Friday with the kids, but haven't had the energy to review it yet. I'm not sure why -- for some reason, I just don't want to write a review; there's something about the genre that tires me.