Despite having dominated the country’s core for a quarter of a millennium from AD 625, and despite the longevity of its two greatest rulers, Aethelbald and Offa, its lack of an indigenous history, ...

This gives us an idea of how difficult life could be in early medieval England. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle close Anglo-Saxon ChronicleA collection of manuscripts written while Alfred the Great was ...

The remains of King Harold II, who died at the famed Battle of Hastings, have never been found. But thanks to the Bayeux ...

Archaeologists have discovered the site of the long-lost palace of England’s last Anglo-Saxon king.

However, the Britons did not hold the Anglo-Saxons back for long. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, written in the 10th century, ...

study finds The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle described how Scandinavians formed a Great Army to raid, conquer and winter in England from AD865. They fought and killed King Edmund, whose body was laid to ...