After Rome’s collapse, London fell silent, then reemerged as a crossroads linking Anglo Saxons, Vikings, and distant Baltic traders. Following archaeology and rare eyewitness accounts, this episode ...

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 ...

In this episode of Kings and Generals’ Medieval History series, we examine why the Anglo-Saxons consistently fell to the invading Vikings. Disunity among Saxon kingdoms, poor coordination, and ...

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 their power ...

British archaeologists looking for evidence of prehistoric activity in the English county of Dorset discovered instead a mass grave holding 54 male skeletons. Oxford Archaeology Before construction ...

In 893, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a large Viking army landed at Appledore in east Kent, having rampaged through northern France and boarded 250 ships at Boulogne, writes Derek Carpenter.