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In the News (Tue 14 Feb 12)

  
  Anglo-Saxons.net : Timeline: 597-627
In the earliest, Paulinus goes to Lindsey after converting Edwin and converts the nobleman (praefectus) Blæcca and his household in Lincoln (HE, ii.16).
Bede goes on to report a story that mass baptisms took place in the river Trent near Littleborough in the presence of King Edwin, which suggests that Lindsey was already under Northumbrian influence at this point.
In the time of Wulfhere of Mercia (658-75), Lindsey was part of the diocese of Mercia (HE, iv.3), but Wulfhere lost it to Northumbria when he fought Ecgfrith in around 670?675.
www.anglo-saxons.net /hwaet?do=seek&query=597-627   (6679 words)

  
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was born in Littleborough, Lancashire, on 21st April 1940.
After spells as an antiques dealer, press agent, salesman, bellboy and serving in the army, Robbie was working as a DJ in a discotheque in Kensington, west London, when he was spotted by Radio Caroline's Gerry Duncan.
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