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 ...

Occupying a position at the base of the Mendip Hills, Wells is perhaps best known as England's smallest city.

Only one Anglo-Saxon kingdom—Wessex, ruled by Alfred the Great—is known to have withstood the Viking invasion. Alfred and his son, Edward, built up an army and navy and constructed a network ...

Bellway has purchased a 13-acre site in Rowbarrow, Salisbury, before securing planning permission for 86 homes. Securing ...

The Great Army spent the next ten years causing havoc up and down the four Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of East Anglia, Wessex, Mercia and Northumbria. Its aim was conquest, not plunder. They entered ...

The origins of the lost country stretch back to Anglo-Saxon times, when this was the realm of the Middle Saxons (in relation to the east, south and western tribes of Essex, Sussex and Wessex).

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A few stone and concrete structures, such as ancient churches and motorway cuttings, survive in the landscape for the moderns to puzzle over, as Anglo-Saxon poets puzzled over the ruined Roman ...

Kings and Generals historical animated documentary series on the history of medieval era continues with a video on the Anglo-Saxons and what happened to them in the aftermath of the battle of Hastings ...

Small decorative details on an iconic helmet belonging to “Britain’s Tutankhamen” could revise our understanding of early medieval Anglo-Saxon history. But the reexamination isn’t due to anything new ...