Future
Songs of Oswald premiere and book launch at King’s College London (12 Feb 2026)
Past
Creative Translation Workshop with Kathrin Tordasi and Hazel Gould (8 May 2025)
Conference: Landscapes of Sanctity in the Medieval World (2-3 July 2025)
This multidisciplinary conference was held at the Institute of Advanced Studies at UCL.
Gastvortrag: St. Oswald in England und Deutschland: neue Perspektiven (23 January 2025)
Dr Sarah Bowden gave a guest lecture at the research seminar run by PD Dr. Michael Ott and Prof. Dr. Dr. Hans-Jochen Schiewer at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg, Germany.
Secondary School Creative Workshop at City of Peterborough Academy (8 October 2024)
Workshops exploring the contemporary resonances of Oswald stories and his links to Peterborough facilitated by creative practitioners Hazel Gould and Natasha Freedman and researcher Johanna Dale.
Secondary School Creative Workshop at Hampton Gardens School (7 October 2024)
Workshops exploring the contemporary resonances of Oswald stories and his links to Peterborough facilitated by creative practitioners Hazel Gould and Natasha Freedman and researcher Sarah Bowden.
Medium Ævum Annual Lecture by Dr Sarah Bowden (14 September 2024)
‘Shifting Landscapes: St Oswald of Northumbria in England and Germany’. Part of the Books Across Borders conference held at Canterbury.
Schools German-language workshop at Peterborough Cathedral (12 June 2024)
The final workshop in our series feeding into the creation of new German-language learning resources for KS3, based on German Oswald legends.
Schools German-language workshop at Oundle School (21 May 2024)
A workshop with KS3 pupils from 5 secondary schools in Peterborough and the surrounding area, hosted by the School Centred Initial Teacher Training Hub at Oundle.
Schools German-language workshop at Oundle School (16 March 2024)
A workshop with German teachers from 6 secondary schools in Peterborough and the surrounding area, hosted by the School Centred Initial Teacher Training Hub at Oundle.
Conference: Liturgy, Literature & History: Oswald of Northumbria and the Cult of Saints in the High Middle Ages (5-6 August 2021)
This major conference featuring historians, musicologists, literary scholars and architectural historians. It was originally planned to take place at Peterborough Cathedral but due to the pandemic took place on Zoom. The conference proceedings will soon be published by the British Academy.
Online Talk: King Oswald’s Right Arm (20 May 2021)
An evening online talk by Johanna Dale for Peterborough Cathedral.
Online Talk: Saint Oswald’s Many Heads (28 January 2021)
A free online talk by Johanna Dale as part of the Churches Conservation Trust’s series of lunchtime lectures. This is available to watch online on CCT Digital.
Being Human Festival (12-22 November 2020)
The short animation ‘King Oswald’s Raven’ developed in collaboration with Charlie Minnion will premiere at Peterborough Cathedral online as part of his year’s Being Human Festival. The animation will be accompanied by a selection of family activity videos and short videos explaining the research background to the project.
British Academy Summer Showcase (19-20 June 2020)
Dr Johanna Dale discussed Oswald’s cult in England & Germany as part of the British Academy Virtual Summer Showcase in June 2020. For more details visit the British Academy website.
Translating & Performing Sanctity: Developing public-facing projects in medieval studies – a graduate workshop (15 Jan 2020)
A workshop for graduate students run by Bowden, Dale & Dr Francesca Brooks (UCL English) took place in the Bloomsbury Studio at UCL in January, supported by UCL’s Performance Lab.
Oswald of Northumbria 