He also ordered many new ships to be built to protect his kingdom from invasion ... in the early Anglo-Saxon period. Bede tells us, for example, about terrible famines that hit England, and ...

Said to be in an “exceptional state of preservation,” the sword bears a silver-and-gilt hilt and runic inscriptions along the ...

A History of the Beginnings of England,’ historian Marc Morris recounts the turbulent era between the abandonment of Britain ...

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The Guardian reports that a sword dated to the sixth century has been discovered in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in southeastern ...

The wars between England and France spanned more than seven centuries. The most famous of these conflicts were the Hundred ...

(CNN) — He’s the mythical Celtic warlord who held out against the Anglo Saxon invasion of what would come to be called England. His right-hand man was a wizard, he was handed his famous sword ...

But it is the six centuries of Anglo-Saxon rule ... to the Norman Conquest in 1066, that most define what we now call England. Barbarian tribes had been moving westward across Europe since ...

Only one other Anglo-Saxon temple or cult site has previously been found in England The discovery of a 1,400-year-old "possible temple" near Sutton Hoo is the latest in a series of archaeological ...

The Church of England is seeking a new home for the remains of an Anglo-Saxon saint who was present at the start of Christianity in England. St Eanswythe was the granddaughter of Ethelbert ...