Bury St Edmunds has been settled since Anglo-Saxon times, when a young King Edmund was martyred by Viking invaders and his shrine drew pilgrims from all over Europe.
This illustrated talk will take you on a tour of 1,000 years of Bury’s history, from monks and martyrs to Saxon kings and Tudor queens, from talking wolves and Magna Carta to Georgian Chic and Mr Pickwick.
Views: 1592 | Enquiries: 19I am an accredited Green Badge Tour Guide, an Associate of the Institute of Tourist Guiding and Chair of the Bury St Edmunds Association of Registered Tour Guides. I am the author of ‘A Neat and Beautiful Theatre: The Story of Bury St Edmunds Market Cross' (2024).
I was a professional archaeologist for over forty years, serving as county archaeologist for Hereford and Worcester, Cheshire and Cambridgeshire. I have excavated in East Anglia, the Midlands, Yorkshire, the North West, Wales, Orkney, Italy and Libya. I am a Member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
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