There are moments in history where a great deal hangs in the balance, meaning that if things had turned out slightly differently, the history which followed would be very different. In the history of ...

Previous collaborators Crossley-Holland and Riddell (Arthur, the Always King) reteam in this mythic reimagining of pre-Arthurian legend. Desiring for his people “to be able to read and hear great ...

As I have previously suggested in these pages, there was rather more to Wantage’s very own Anglo-Saxon monarch than a reputation for criminal absent-mindedness in the kitchen. A new year-long ...

Few kings in English history deserve the epithet great more than Alfred King of Wessex In an age and country blighted by Viking invasions Alfred inflicted repeated defeats upon the Norsemen and set ...