# Finding Britain’s Lost Gods

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Ronald Hutton
- Year: 2022
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: History, Religion, Literature and writing
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/lost-gods)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Britain has one of the richest of all pagan heritages in Europe, defined as the textual and material evidence for its pre-Christian religions. The island is possessed of monuments, burial sites and a range of other remains not only from several distinct ages of prehistory, but also from three different major historic cultures. This lecture will look at what we know of prehistoric worship, focusing on Stonehenge and the bog body known as Lindow Man, to examine the difficulties of interpreting evidence for ritual behaviour for which no textual testimony survives.

## Lectures

1. [Gods of Prehistoric Britain](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-lost-gods/7ea13fb4740e) (YouTube)
2. [Paganism in Roman Britain](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-lost-gods/fb7273dafec7) (YouTube)
3. [Anglo-Saxon Pagan Gods](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-lost-gods/2a9681f63ae9) (YouTube)
4. [Viking Pagan Gods in Britain](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-lost-gods/5649cbdb5639) (YouTube)
5. [Finding Lost Gods in Wales](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-lost-gods/8d916a8d3d0e) (YouTube)
6. [How Pagan Was Medieval Britain?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-lost-gods/4f5625eca3b3) (YouTube)