It was a great pleasure to be part of a stimulating and successful conference last week on ‘The Isles and the Wider World’, as part of the Leverhulme ‘Converting the Isles‘ Network. I will post a full write-up soon, but in the meantime you can listen to me talking about ‘Martyrdom and the Rise of Missionary Hagiography’ – discussing an overlooked aspect of change in the late seventh century – here.