The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is one of the most important artifacts of English history. As a text, it is a remarkable record of ...

In 927, Athelstan became the first king to rule over all of England — and it hadn't been an easy journey. Though he was the ...

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 ...

After Edward died, the English Witan (council of Anglo-Saxon kings) chose Earl Harold of Wessex as the next king. The Normans took over all of England, including the Danelaw. Duke William of ...

such as Wessex’s Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, has left it eclipsed by its better documented neighbours. Max Adams’s The Mercian Chronicles is a brilliantly executed attempt to recover Mercia from ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have made a stunning breakthrough after discovering an 11th Centry medieval toilet that has helped to unravel a 2,000-year-old mystery. Researchers from the University of Exeter and ...

Harold was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, and he was succeeded by the Norman king William the Conqueror. Describing the formerly lost site as a "power center," the university says Bosham ...