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Earls of Northumbria 01-04 by H A Culley
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Overview: H A Culley served as an Army officer for twenty-four years during which time he had a variety of unusual jobs. He spent his twenty-first birthday in the jungles of Borneo, commanded an Arab infantry unit in the Gulf for three years, and was the military attaché in Beirut during the aftermath of the Lebanese Civil War.
After leaving the Army he spent twenty-one years in the education sector. He has served on the board of two commercial companies and has been a trustee of several national and local charities. His last job before retiring was as the finance director and company secretary of the Institute of Development Professionals in Education. Since retirement, he has been involved in several historical projects and gives talks on historical subjects. He started writing historical fiction in 2013.
For many years he and his wife lived between Holy Island and Berwick upon Tweed in northern Northumberland, the setting for many of his historical novels, but moved to Oxfordshire in 2020 to be nearer his children and grandchildren.
Genre: Historical Fiction
01 Uhtred the Bold
In the late tenth century Northumbria was surrounded by potential enemies: the Scots to the North, the Danes in the South of the region and Viking raiders from across the North Sea. Uhtred, the elder son of the Earl of Bernicia, fights and wins his first battle against a horde of Norsemen when he is fourteen and continues to face external enemies throughout his life.
However, he has to contend with enemies within his own family as well. His father is jealous of his success and disowns him and his younger brother wants him dead so that he can succeed to the earldom. He survives several attempts on his life but then the Scots invade and besiege Durham, where Uhtred has left his wife and child believing it to be a place of safety. He must unite the disparate parts of Northumbria under his leadership if he is to stand any chance of defeating the Scots invaders and so save his family. Meanwhile, across the sea Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark and Norway, and his son Cnut make plans to invade Northumbria as a prelude to seizing the English throne.
02 The Battle of Carham
In 1018 Malcolm, King of Scots, is determined to avenge the crushing defeat inflicted on him by Uhtred of Bebbanburg a dozen years before. Lothian had been a land fought over by the Scots and the Northumbrians for over half a century and now its conquest becomes Malcolm’s overriding priority.
It seems that he cannot fail as the Northumbrian leadership is split in twain. Earl Eadwulf is inept and Aldred, Uhtred’s son, is the best hope the Northumbrians have of defeating Malcolm. The two are bound by family ties – Aldred is Eadwulf’s nephew – but bitter adversaries because Eadwulf murdered Uhtred to become earl.
Can they put aside their hatred for one another to face their joint enemy?
On a hot August day the Scots and the Northumbrians meet on the field of battle just outside Carham. The outcome will decide the border between England and Scotland for all time to come.
03 Blood Feud
In eleventh century England there are two ways to resolve a killing: the payment of weregeld to the family of the dead or the declaration of a blood feud where a life for a life is the only acceptable payment.Aldred and Eadulf, the sons of Uhtred of Bebbanburg, succeed in killing one of their father’s assassins, but his accomplice thinks himself safe until one night Aldred lures him into a trap. The ensuing blood feud will continue for over half a century. It’s a violent age and, with King Cnut trying to govern Denmark and Norway as well as England, Aldred and Eadulf must keep their lands safe from marauding Scots, Norsemen and Cumbrians without help from the rest of England. At the same time the brothers’ safety is constantly threatened by the ongoing feud. This enthralling tale about life, politics and warfare in the time immediately before the Norman Conquest is a must for lovers of this period in history.
04 1066
When Edward the Confessor of the Saxon Royal House comes to the throne in succession to four Danish kings of England, he inherits a prosperous and strong kingdom. Within ten years his struggle with the powerful Harold of Wessex has changed England into a country torn asunder by internal strife.
The stage is set for the final decade of Anglo-Saxon England. Harold makes his brother Tostig Earl of Northumbria but he’s an outsider, absent for much of the time and only interested in how much money he can squeeze out of his people in unfair taxation. When the Northumbrians revolt and depose him, the three grandsons of the last earl from the house of Bebbanburg, Uhtred the Bold, might have expected one of them to be chosen as Tostig’s successor, but instead the nobles offer it to Morcar, brother of Edwin of Mercia, in order to form a strong alliance against Harold and Tostig’s other brothers.
When King Edward dies childless, Tostig betrays his country and inveigles Harald Hadrada of Norway into attacking Northumbria whilst Duke William of Normandy prepares to invade in the south. The Northumbrians are defeated by Hadrada and Tostig in the north, but Harold, now crowned as Edward’s successor, makes a forced march to confront the Viking horde at Stamford Bridge.
He wins a great victory after a hard fought battle, but his forces are decimated, exhausted and nearly three hundred miles away when William the Bastard lands at Pevensey in Sussex. Harold now faces his greatest test.
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Overview: H A Culley served as an Army officer for twenty-four years during which time he had a variety of unusual jobs. He spent his twenty-first birthday in the jungles of Borneo, commanded an Arab infantry unit in the Gulf for three years, and was the military attaché in Beirut during the aftermath of the Lebanese Civil War.
After leaving the Army he spent twenty-one years in the education sector. He has served on the board of two commercial companies and has been a trustee of several national and local charities. His last job before retiring was as the finance director and company secretary of the Institute of Development Professionals in Education. Since retirement, he has been involved in several historical projects and gives talks on historical subjects. He started writing historical fiction in 2013.
For many years he and his wife lived between Holy Island and Berwick upon Tweed in northern Northumberland, the setting for many of his historical novels, but moved to Oxfordshire in 2020 to be nearer his children and grandchildren.
Genre: Historical Fiction
01 Uhtred the Bold
In the late tenth century Northumbria was surrounded by potential enemies: the Scots to the North, the Danes in the South of the region and Viking raiders from across the North Sea. Uhtred, the elder son of the Earl of Bernicia, fights and wins his first battle against a horde of Norsemen when he is fourteen and continues to face external enemies throughout his life.
However, he has to contend with enemies within his own family as well. His father is jealous of his success and disowns him and his younger brother wants him dead so that he can succeed to the earldom. He survives several attempts on his life but then the Scots invade and besiege Durham, where Uhtred has left his wife and child believing it to be a place of safety. He must unite the disparate parts of Northumbria under his leadership if he is to stand any chance of defeating the Scots invaders and so save his family. Meanwhile, across the sea Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark and Norway, and his son Cnut make plans to invade Northumbria as a prelude to seizing the English throne.
02 The Battle of Carham
In 1018 Malcolm, King of Scots, is determined to avenge the crushing defeat inflicted on him by Uhtred of Bebbanburg a dozen years before. Lothian had been a land fought over by the Scots and the Northumbrians for over half a century and now its conquest becomes Malcolm’s overriding priority.
It seems that he cannot fail as the Northumbrian leadership is split in twain. Earl Eadwulf is inept and Aldred, Uhtred’s son, is the best hope the Northumbrians have of defeating Malcolm. The two are bound by family ties – Aldred is Eadwulf’s nephew – but bitter adversaries because Eadwulf murdered Uhtred to become earl.
Can they put aside their hatred for one another to face their joint enemy?
On a hot August day the Scots and the Northumbrians meet on the field of battle just outside Carham. The outcome will decide the border between England and Scotland for all time to come.
03 Blood Feud
In eleventh century England there are two ways to resolve a killing: the payment of weregeld to the family of the dead or the declaration of a blood feud where a life for a life is the only acceptable payment.Aldred and Eadulf, the sons of Uhtred of Bebbanburg, succeed in killing one of their father’s assassins, but his accomplice thinks himself safe until one night Aldred lures him into a trap. The ensuing blood feud will continue for over half a century. It’s a violent age and, with King Cnut trying to govern Denmark and Norway as well as England, Aldred and Eadulf must keep their lands safe from marauding Scots, Norsemen and Cumbrians without help from the rest of England. At the same time the brothers’ safety is constantly threatened by the ongoing feud. This enthralling tale about life, politics and warfare in the time immediately before the Norman Conquest is a must for lovers of this period in history.
04 1066
When Edward the Confessor of the Saxon Royal House comes to the throne in succession to four Danish kings of England, he inherits a prosperous and strong kingdom. Within ten years his struggle with the powerful Harold of Wessex has changed England into a country torn asunder by internal strife.
The stage is set for the final decade of Anglo-Saxon England. Harold makes his brother Tostig Earl of Northumbria but he’s an outsider, absent for much of the time and only interested in how much money he can squeeze out of his people in unfair taxation. When the Northumbrians revolt and depose him, the three grandsons of the last earl from the house of Bebbanburg, Uhtred the Bold, might have expected one of them to be chosen as Tostig’s successor, but instead the nobles offer it to Morcar, brother of Edwin of Mercia, in order to form a strong alliance against Harold and Tostig’s other brothers.
When King Edward dies childless, Tostig betrays his country and inveigles Harald Hadrada of Norway into attacking Northumbria whilst Duke William of Normandy prepares to invade in the south. The Northumbrians are defeated by Hadrada and Tostig in the north, but Harold, now crowned as Edward’s successor, makes a forced march to confront the Viking horde at Stamford Bridge.
He wins a great victory after a hard fought battle, but his forces are decimated, exhausted and nearly three hundred miles away when William the Bastard lands at Pevensey in Sussex. Harold now faces his greatest test.
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