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The Nara to Norwich team, our contributors and other guest scholars will be posting regularly about our latest activities, research activities, new books and more. Watch this space to view our behind the scenes content.

Bromholm Priory, Bacton, Norfolk: a forgotten medieval pilgrimage centre?

12 October 2026

In this week’s post, Professor Katy Cubitt explores Bromholm Priory, an important and yet largely overlooked centre of pilgrimage in

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Sensing Sacred Spaces: Researching pilgrimage through a phenomenological approach

7 October 2026

In this series, I will be exploring one of our key research areas for this project—the sensory experience of pilgrimage.

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Project Brochure: Walk of the Norwich to Little Walsingham Pilgrimage Route

Routes between disciplines: An interdisciplinary approach to pilgrimage research

Bury St Edmunds and King Edmund’s Relics

Ise Honkaido and Pilgrimage in Japan

Preparing for the Walsingham Way

Sacred Paths, Protected Lands: Pilgrimage, Ecology and Conservation in the Anthropocene

Pilgrimage 2026: Norwich to Little Walsingham

Wandering Women: Pilgrimage and travel for women of the past

Sacred Routes and Hydrological Worlds: Water and waterscapes in pilgrimage

Exploring Pilgrimage across Britain and Japan

Elite warriors and chamber graves on either end of the Silk Road

Pilgrimage in prehistory: was Stonehenge a pilgrimage centre?

Obsidian-knapping in the Oki islands

Pilgrimage and the Anthropocene

The Final Journey

Warriors with two swords across Eurasia

Exhibiting Nara to Norwich: From The Forum to Virtual Reality (VR)

Welcome to our relaunched website

Signifying the Sacred: Art and Architecture in the landscape from the Swat Valley to East Anglia

Centre for the World in the Viking Age (WiVA)

IASSRT Papers: A probable silk heirloom from Central Asia recovered from a late tenth-century house in Dublin

IASSRT Papers: Viking Warriors Dressed In Silk

IASSRT Papers: Nahal Omer Middens as indicator for Networks of Trade along the Silk Road on the Edges of Europe: The Textile Evidence

IASSRT Papers: Rediscovering Silk Road Collections: Textiles Brought to Japan by the Ōtani Expeditions

IASSRT Papers: Non-Archaeological Silk Road Textiles in Japan: Reconsidering Fragments from the Shōso-in and Hōryū-ji

Reconnections along the Silk Road: Restoring and Reconstructing Textiles from Afar: 7th Symposium of the International Association for the Study of Silk Road Textiles (IASSRT)

Warham Camp July 2023 – Archaeological investigations as part of the Later Prehistoric Norfolk Project

The World in the Viking Age: A new Centre of Excellence at Uppsala University, with the Silk Roads in focus

Pilgrimage: Physical and Spiritual Journeys

Meeting between Asia and Europe: The Nara to Norwich Workshop in Istanbul

Lunar New Year: Down a Rabbit (Hare?) Hole

On Buddhist stupas and visual abundance

Christmas at Archaeological Sites

A visit to Asuka

A Royal Hall of the East Anglian Kings at Rendlesham

The Atlas of Maritime Buddhism Project

The cross – its development as a symbol in early medieval northwest Europe

From Norwich to Sweden

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