Brixworth Church has been standing since the late 7th century, long before the Norman Conquest or even the establishment of ...

A strong and successful leader became 'cyning', the Anglo-Saxon word for 'king'. Each king ruled a kingdom and led a small army. The Anglo-Saxon kings were from ruling families who passed ...

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

Archaeologists have unearthed a remarkably well-preserved elite sword from a newly discovered Anglo-Saxon cemetery near ...

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

This piece of Anglo-Saxon high tech deception turned the surfaces ... For instance, in 674/675 AD, the kingdom of Mercia was defeated by its northern neighbour, the kingdom of Northumbria, which ...

On the island of Great Britain, this era was characterized by the decline of Roman rule (around the early 5th century) and the establishment of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms over the following two ...

which will go on display in the library's Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms exhibition in the autumn. Mr Crossley-Holland - for whom the monsters are like "humans gone wrong" and "terrifying because of that ...

It is only higher education institution in the UK to offer a Viking Studies course but now Nottingham wants to rename an ...

They revolutionised historians' understanding of the 7th Century, previously seen as a backward time when England was divided into Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. In all, there were 263 finds of gold ...