History documentary dealing with the origins of the British monarchy amid the Anglo-Saxon / Viking wars of early medieval ...

The formation of England is a story that spans thousands of years, filled with battles, invasions, and the merging of different cultures and peoples. In this video, we uncover the key events that led ...

Gildas, a British monk, wrote 'The Ruin of Britain', the only near-contemporary source for the collapse of Roman Britain and the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons ... a mission to England in 596 ...

More than a hundred years earlier, the Anglo-Saxons scored a definitive victory in a battle that led to the creation of the nation of England itself. The 937 A.D. Battle of Brunanburh was known ...

An excavation has revealed an elaborate hall in the east of England of early Anglo-Saxon kings, which was used for feasting by monarchs and their warriors roughly 1,400 years ago. When you ...

A lead-lined coffin that was discovered in northern England could offer clues about the area’s transition from the Roman Empire to its Anglo-Saxon period. By Jenny Gross LONDON — British ...

In 597 AD, the pope dispatched St Augustine to England on a mission to convert the pagan Anglo-Saxon kings, a process which continued for many decades. Dr Leggett said: "She must have known that ...