The Bayeux Tapestry, a 70-meter- (229-foot)- long medieval artwork that depicts the Norman conquest of England, will be ...

In the clamour of headlines and the fury of street protests, we are told that our country is under siege - that the small ...

In this episode of Kings and Generals’ Medieval History series, we examine why the Anglo-Saxons consistently fell to the invading Vikings. Disunity among Saxon kingdoms, poor coordination, and ...

Instead of waiting out the Vikings until they went away, the Anglo-Saxons reaped the myriad benefits of a broad cultural intermingling that many people still think never happened.

People with Scandinavian ancestry were in Britain long before the Anglo-Saxons or the Vikings turned up, researchers have found after studying the genetics of an ancient Roman buried in York, reports ...

Vikings and Anglo-Saxons Ninian was probably the son of a Roman soldier stationed at Hadrian's Wall. After studying in Rome and Gaul, he travelled to Galloway to spread the Christian gospel.

The pagan Anglo-Saxons copied a gold Roman coin with Christian imagery, but they didn't do a very good job. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

During his reign from 924 to 939, Athelstan united the Anglo-Saxons, defeated the Vikings and became the first king of England after seizing control of Northumbria. He was the first monarch to be ...

Well, there are two: that “Anglo-Saxon” was “hardly used” by the Anglo-Saxons to refer to themselves; and that because racists have used the term, it has been in some way “contaminated”.

After decades of peace, Vikings again raided England, in A.D. 980. At the time, the Anglo-Saxon ruler was King Aethelred the Unraed (literally “the ill-advised”).