{"id":10,"date":"2014-01-17T12:45:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T12:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bernicianstudies.eu\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2026-01-28T10:32:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T10:32:31","slug":"who-are-the-bsg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bernicianstudies.eu\/?page_id=10","title":{"rendered":"The Friends of Bernice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernicianstudies.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/bsg-logo-black.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-81\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bernicianstudies.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/bsg-logo-black-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"bsg logo black\" width=\"76\" height=\"108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bernicianstudies.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/bsg-logo-black-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.bernicianstudies.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/bsg-logo-black-722x1024.jpg 722w, https:\/\/www.bernicianstudies.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/bsg-logo-black.jpg 762w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\" \/><\/a>Bernicia was the name of the early medieval kingdom in what is now Northumberland, on England&#8217;s north-east coast between the Rivers Tyne and Tweed.\u00a0 It is the kingdom of Lindisfarne and Bamburgh, of St Cuthbert and King Oswald.<\/p>\n<p>The Bernician Studies Group\u00a0meets to research the history and archaeology of the period covered by Bede&#8217;s Ecclesiastical history of the English people; but its interests and research go far beyond: to Ireland, which manintained close intellectual and cultural ties with Northumbria; with Scotland, where its kings were fostered; to Wales and many parts of England which came into conflict or alliance with the Kings and churches of the region; and beyond, to Europe, where Northumbrians were active throughout the period and where many brilliant examples of Northumbrian art and literature were traded for hundreds of years.<\/p>\n<p>New members are very welcome &#8211; see our contacts page.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Facebook entry\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bernicehasfriends\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernicia was the name of the early medieval kingdom in what is now Northumberland, on England&#8217;s north-east coast between the Rivers Tyne and Tweed.\u00a0 It is the kingdom of Lindisfarne and Bamburgh, of St Cuthbert and King Oswald. The Bernician Studies Group\u00a0meets to research the history and archaeology of the period covered by Bede&#8217;s Ecclesiastical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bernicianstudies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bernicianstudies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bernicianstudies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bernicianstudies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bernicianstudies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bernicianstudies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/www.bernicianstudies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bernicianstudies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}