Thanks to Rob Attar, editor of BBC History Magazine, for inviting me to contribute, and to Dr Kara Critchell, Dr Caitlin Green, Adam Parsons and Dr Simon Trafford for commenting on a draft of the text. I was subsequently invited to write for the magazine. I gave both a talk about the archaeological ethics and interpretive challenges of discerning evidence of Viking warrior women, as well as a ‘Death and the City’ tour of Chester in the worst rain imaginable. Still, my name was put forward by my colleague Dr Clare Hickman to participate in the BBC History Magazine Weekend at Chester in October. I haven’t gone out of my way to court archaeology and history magazines to feature my work. Osborne (eds) The Public Archaeology of Death, Sheffield: Equinox, pp. Death’s drama: mortuary practice in Vikings Season 1–4, in H. Lister (eds) Vikings and the Vikings: The Norse World(s) of the History Channel Series, Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press, 173−200.

Lister (eds) Vikings and the Vikings: The Norse World(s) of the History Channel Series, Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press. Dialogues with the dead in Vikings, in P. These appear in a book edited by Paul Hardwick and Kate Lister: Vikings and the Vikings, and my edited collection with Ben Wills-Eve and Jennifer Osborne: The Public Archaeology of Death. Furthermore, I’ve written 3 book chapters – one co-authored with Dr Alison Klevnäs (Stockholm University) and one co-authored with Dr Alexandra Sanmark (UHI) about dimensions of the show: its funerals, its portrayal of the post-burial treatment and circulation of human remains, and its assembly places and practices. This piece builds on a series of over 40 blog-posts I’ve written about the TV series focusing on its portray of Norse death rituals. In particular, I emphasise the importance of the banal dimensions – living and dwelling – and the materialities (artefacts, substances, architectures and other material cultures) of the show. I attempt an overview of the significance and value of the TV show from an academic perspective, suggesting that, despite some issues and myths it perpetuates, Vikings is an invaluable medium of public engagement for the study of the Early Middle Ages. On Thursday 17 Jan, History Extra magazine published my piece: The real Vikings: the early medieval world behind the hit drama.

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