After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw land territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland. He was the first 'King of all ...

A University of Winchester academic has become the consultant for a new French docudrama series on the Vikings and their 'Empire of the North Sea'. Professor of Early Medieval history, Ryan Lavelle, ...

As the oldest daughter of Alfred the Great, it could be said that Aethelflaed was born into greatness. Contemporary ...

This time we will take the Vikings by surprise and this time we will win! FX: Cheering. Music Narrator: Soon after - at the Battle of Edington - Alfred was as good as his word. The Anglo-Saxon ...

A COURT has issued a warrant for the arrest of a detectorist who discovered and stole the Herefordshire Viking Hoard worth ...

A new exhibition in Hastings will celebrate the living histories of the Hastings fishing community following a £250,000 grant ...

These Columban monasteries played a leading role in the expansion of Christianity; they converted the Picts and restored Christianity to Anglo-Saxon Northumbria in the ... tucked in their belts. The ...

Archaeologists from the Universities of Newcastle and Exeter have found new evidence that a site in the coastal village of Bosham was the residence of Harold Godwinson. He was the last Anglo-Saxon ...

One of Europe’s oldest fishing communities – now under threat – to be centre of major cultural project in spring 2025 ...

Whenever Britain faced conflict - from early invasions by the Celts and Romans to WWII when skies were criss-crossed with ...

Growing up, many of us hear about historical events that sound real, so we take them as fact. Yet, in … Continue reading ...