The Vikings are coming

The Vikings almost need no introduction. An image is instantly conjured up of ferocious fighting men, rampaging through our green and pleasant land, plundering, wrecking and desecrating. Why did they come here and what did they hope to achieve?

We can find out more about them through their invasion tactics, their trading and extraordinary seafaring skills and through many artefacts that survive to this day.

Imogen Corrigan has lectured extensively on Anglo-Saxon and Medieval subjects in Britain and Europe, and is a NADFAS lecturer as well as being a speaker for the Kent Federation of History and East Kent National Trust.

Imogen Corrigan served for twenty years in the Women’s Royal Army Corps (WRAC) and the Adjutant General’s Corps. She retired from the Army in 1994 as a Major, having served in the UK, Germany and Hong Kong.

In 2004, Imogen graduated from the University of Kent with a 1st in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval History, and is currently studying for an M.Phil at Birmingham University. Her research subject is: The Development and Function of the Foliate Head in English Medieval Churches.

Imogen has lectured extensively on Anglo-Saxon and Medieval subjects in Britain and Europe, and is a NADFAS lecturer as well as being a speaker for the Kent Federation of History and East Kent National Trust. Her first book, The Race for the Sky: the Building of the English Cathedrals, was published by Atlantic Books in 2011.