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Eric Bloodaxe, the Viking ruler of York, was killed by the Wessex army in 954 and England was united under one king - Edred. Most of the information we have about the Anglo-Saxons comes from the ...
King Charles III was crowned in Westminster Abbey, but this is not the only place where the ceremony has happened ...
The sovereign was the last Anglo-Saxon king of the House of Wessex, having taken over from the Dane Harthacnut. Before him ...
Despite this, he secured his position as king of the Anglo-Saxons in 925 ... was named king of the West Saxons (Wessex). But ...
Narrator: Excuse me. Yes, you! Would you like to learn about the Anglo-Saxons? Great! Well let’s start at the beginning. The Anglo-Saxon age in Britain was about 410 to 1066, and they originally ...
The writing of the Chronicle sheds as much light onto Anglo-Saxon England as the text itself. In the 890s CE, a group of scholars in the Kingdom of Wessex were commissioned to write a chronicle of ...
Re Jennifer Williams’ interesting piece “Rural England considers redrawing the map” (Outlook, February 20), earlier this month I attended the Wessex Regionalist party’s Spring meeting in ...