The Richard Hall Symposium 2025: A Day Out with the Vikings

The Richard Hall Symposium is returning to its original Festival of Ideas slot in 2025, with ‘A Day Out with the Vikings’, which will look at the past, present and future of festivals and public events on a Viking theme. A panel of invited speakers will join the discussion, which will look at re-enactment, reconstructed Viking ships, Viking festivals across the British Isles and Europe, and the JORVIK Viking Festival itself, which can be traced back to York city centre events staged for the first time in summer 1985.