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 ...

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

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 sovereign was the last Anglo-Saxon king of the House of Wessex, having taken over from the Dane Harthacnut. Before him ...

King Charles III was crowned in Westminster Abbey, but this is not the only place where the ceremony has happened ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf the warrior Sigemund has ... Between A.D. 600 and 850 Mercia waged 14 wars with its neighbor Wessex, 11 with the Welsh, and 18 campaigns with other foes—and ...