{"id":330,"date":"2015-10-06T13:58:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/?p=330"},"modified":"2015-10-06T13:59:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:59:17","slug":"anglo-saxon-outing-to-the-potteries-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2015\/10\/06\/anglo-saxon-outing-to-the-potteries-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglo-Saxon Outing to the Potteries Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/files\/2015\/10\/11227651_932604240145792_304864621495947166_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-331 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/files\/2015\/10\/11227651_932604240145792_304864621495947166_o-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"11227651_932604240145792_304864621495947166_o\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2015\/10\/11227651_932604240145792_304864621495947166_o-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2015\/10\/11227651_932604240145792_304864621495947166_o-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2015\/10\/11227651_932604240145792_304864621495947166_o-56x100.jpg 56w, https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2015\/10\/11227651_932604240145792_304864621495947166_o.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a>We welcomed new level four students to our English and Creative Writing courses with a trip to the Potteries Museum, Hanley, where Dr. Melanie Ebdon gave us a thrilling reading of Beowulf in Anglo-Saxon\u00a0in an atmospherically reconstructed mead-hall, (contemporaneous to the writing of this poem)\u00a0\u00a0and artefacts from the Staffordshire Hoard.<\/p>\n<p>The trip celebrated the end of a busy welcome week, which also included a student learning conference. Staff and students from English and Creative Writing joined colleagues and peers from History and Sociology.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/files\/2015\/10\/12034250_932604230145793_6158355871482619481_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-333 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/files\/2015\/10\/12034250_932604230145793_6158355871482619481_o-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"12034250_932604230145793_6158355871482619481_o\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2015\/10\/12034250_932604230145793_6158355871482619481_o-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2015\/10\/12034250_932604230145793_6158355871482619481_o-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2015\/10\/12034250_932604230145793_6158355871482619481_o-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2015\/10\/12034250_932604230145793_6158355871482619481_o-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2015\/10\/12034250_932604230145793_6158355871482619481_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/files\/2015\/10\/12036786_932604246812458_7643700389220446641_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-334 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/files\/2015\/10\/12036786_932604246812458_7643700389220446641_n-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"12036786_932604246812458_7643700389220446641_n\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2015\/10\/12036786_932604246812458_7643700389220446641_n-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2015\/10\/12036786_932604246812458_7643700389220446641_n-56x100.jpg 56w, https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2015\/10\/12036786_932604246812458_7643700389220446641_n.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We welcomed new level four students to our English and Creative Writing courses with a trip to the Potteries Museum, Hanley, where Dr. Melanie Ebdon gave us a thrilling reading of Beowulf in Anglo-Saxon\u00a0in an atmospherically reconstructed mead-hall, (contemporaneous to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2015\/10\/06\/anglo-saxon-outing-to-the-potteries-museum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3710,40444],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-the-student-room"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}