Alfred expanded his kingdom, taking land from the Mercia ... idea of how difficult life could be in early medieval England. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle close Anglo-Saxon ChronicleA collection ...

In one Anglo-Saxon cemetery in eastern England rest the skeletons of two ... then the capital city of the Kingdom of Kent. Christianity spread rapidly across her realm, and before the year was ...

King Charles III was crowned in Westminster Abbey, but this is not the only place where the ceremony has happened ...

When Sihtric died a year later in 927, Athelstan seized the opportunity to take his kingdom. He thus became the first ...

But the treasure pulled from Fred Johnson's field was novel—a cache of gold, silver, and garnet objects from early Anglo-Saxon times and from one of the most important kingdoms of the era.

In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England revealed their astounding contents: the remains of an Anglo-Saxon funerary ship ... was one of the first Angle kings to convert to Christianity ...

Re Jennifer Williams’ interesting piece “Rural England considers redrawing the map” (Outlook, February 20), earlier this month I attended the Wessex Regionalist party’s Spring meeting in ...

One of the great “lost causes” of history is the fall and destruction of Romano-Celtic Britain after the death of Arthur – a tale up there with those of Troy, or the destruction of the Jewish kingdom ...