Leading the West Saxon forces was King Æthelred, and his younger brother, the future Alfred the Great. That year, the Danes ...

Seven Kings Must Die closes out The Last Kingdom series and while it was a suitable finale, it really should have been two ...

Just inside the gates of the south ambulatory in Westminster Abbey is an arched recess containing the supposed tomb of a legendary founder of an earlier church on the site, Sebert (or Sebbe) King of ...

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...

Most important of all, the people who buried the king made sure that he’d look good in the next world by burying him with his best Anglo-Saxon ruler bling which is where this gold comes in and ...

The literary King Arthur story that developed in the later middle ages ... a broad peninsula with one good entrance route from the west, the Icknield Way. The Saxons erected a series of earthworks ...