Members of the Bernician Studies Group publish papers, articles and books in their own right, and on behalf of the group. Here you can read academic papers authored by the research directors and find links to books written by members.
Max Adams and Colm O’Brien have recently produced a book called Northumbria AD 367-867 – Earth Hall, Ring Gift and Heaven’s field. Published by Birlinn, it’s available in good bookshops and from Max Adams’s website, The Ambulist. It is a new and comprehensive history and archaeology of the kingdoms north of the Humber in the half millennium before the establishment of the Viking kingdom of York.
A long term research project in central Northumberland, called Cocwudu, is producing fascinating stories about the evolution of Early Medieval landscapes in a woodland setting. It now has its own page on this site. An interim report on progress to 2019 will be uploaded in the near future.
The flitting of the sparrow: the ephemeral and the eternal in Early Medieval Northumbrian thought, by Max Adams and Colm O’Brien, will appear in 2020 in a new edited volume looking at processes of petrification.