Mercia saw the rise of kings, Christianity and our very identity, as Max Adams reveals in this genius history, The Mercian Chronicles ...

The Normans won, King Harold was killed, and William became King. This brought an end to Anglo-Saxon and Viking rule. A new age of Norman rule in England had started.

Whatever it is about medieval England that fired up a metalhead from Old Kilpatrick to start writing historical novels, it’s clearly potent ...

Experts believed the coins were Anglo-Saxon and to have been hidden by a Viking. One of them was a double-headed coin, showing two rulers of England. Alfred the Great, who ruled Wessex ...

As a scholar, you’d say I was distinguished I translated books from Latin into English I set up schools so children could learn Education was my big concern. Vikings, you’d better beware!

Since this century began, Vikings have been the subject of countless historical documentaries, multiple streaming series and ...

When Malcolm Weale saw the tiny, dirt-covered object he'd unearthed in an English field, he knew it was something special.

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(Pic credit: James Hardisty) The village dates back more than 1,000 years and the Domesday Book lists Grassington as part of the estate of Gamal Barn. The Norman conquest of England made it part ...

Lucy Worsley, voice-over: Christmas Day, 1069, Northern England ... from an Anglo-Saxon lady to a Norman man, and this incredible detail is replicated throughout the whole book.

Into this mix came Emma of Normandy, a noblewoman who married Anglo-Saxon king Æthelred the Unready and later became the wife of Cnut. Emma was the mother to two kings of England by her marriages – ...

Hardrada’s death saw the end of large-scale Norse invasions of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, which make the battle a fitting full stop on the Viking Age. Away from England, however, Viking activity ...