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

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 ...

beginning with the Anglo-Saxon conquest of England, and how the following centuries set the scene for the arrival of the Normans in 1066. He examines the Conquest itself, and the reigns of William I, ...

Their efforts contradict the assumption that Anglo-Saxon studies did not effectively participate in Tudor nationalism outside of Protestant polemic; instead, it was a vital part of making history ...

A new DNA analysis test on ancient bones could result in a rewrite of some of Britain's key moments in history, researchers ...

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

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

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

Although we call the language spoken by the Anglo-Saxons “Old English ... by their continental equivalents after the Norman Conquest of England, and so would be all but unrecognizable ...

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 ...