Loved the Last Kingdom series from the first book to last and it has inspired my thirst knowledge of all things late Anglo-Saxon period. Just reading Marc Morris’ superb new(ish) book “The Anglo-Saxons” and in the section about Athelstan he refers on several occasions to an “Ealdred of Bamburgh” – especially in respect of the gathering in Cumbria that Athelstan integrated. Is this same person as Uhtred? Is Ealdred merely an alternative name for Uhtred in AS times? Intrigued as Michael Wood also referred to the same event in one of his TV programmes and clearly referred to “Uhtred of Bamburgh (or Bebbanberg).

Phil Whitehead