An exhibition showcasing the cast of the skull – recently rediscovered by Professor Jo Story of the University of Leicester’s School of History – and the story behind the excavation of Bede’s tomb in 1831 and the preservation of the skull found there, will be opening on 8 September at Bede’s World, Jarrow, Tyne and Wear.
Bede (also known as The Venerable Bede) lived from 672–735. He was one of the most influential scholars in medieval Europe. His most famous work, completed in AD 731, is the 'Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum' or 'The Ecclesiastical History of the English People'.
A cast of the skull of Bede – the ‘Father of English History’ – has been rediscovered by a University of Leicester academic, within the anatomical collections of the University of Cambridge.
Cast of Bede's Skull Rediscovered
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McKee family outside JORVIK with Viking re-enactor, Arnor (Max O’Keeffe) – Photo courtesy York Archaeological Trust
Cast of Bede's skull - Photo: J. Story, with permission of the director of the Duckworth Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies