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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

This story appears in the November 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. One day, or perhaps one night, in the late seventh century an unknown party traveled along an old Roman road that cut ...

Discoveries made during excavations in Oxford have confirmed the original defensive perimeter of the then Anglo-Saxon town. An area around Oriel College was investigated by Oxford Archaeology ...