History documentary dealing with the origins of the British monarchy amid the Anglo-Saxon / Viking wars of early medieval England. Today, the United Kingdom is among the world’s most celebrated ...

In this episode of Kings and Generals’ Medieval History series, we examine why the Anglo-Saxons consistently fell to the ...

The Bromeswell bucket is a 6th-century artifact that was discovered in 1986 at Sutton Hoo, an Anglo-Saxon royal burial site in Suffolk, England. For many years after the bucket was discovered ...

English owes much to its Anglo Saxon origins. Listen to the voices of rogues, knights and fops as they chart the history of the language. The Anglo-Saxons - A brief introduction to the origins of ...

Archaeologists found missing pieces of a sixth century vessel from the famed Sutton Hoo site, as well as the cremated human remains and other objects it once held.

ALEX HALL is thrilled by a grassroots history of of Swindon’s stunning industrial and creative past FEW towns in the south of England have been as battered by neoliberalism as Swindon, and the town ...

Archaeologists recently discovered the purpose of a mysterious 1,500-year-old bucket at one of England’s most historic sites – and it wasn’t pleasant.

In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England revealed their astounding contents: the remains of an Anglo-Saxon funerary ship and a huge cache of seventh-century royal treasure. In southern ...

The Byzantine Bromeswell bucket, discovered at the site of two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries, has shed new light on pre-Norman ...

Thousands of visitors flock to UK castles each year, some with links to Harry Potter, others with a long history of sieges, ...

They are said to be the first coins made and used in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire and predate the first gold coinage made in Anglo-Saxon England. The find is one of only eight hoards ...

In 1930, two Oxford-educated writers, Walter C. Sellar and Robert J. Yeatman, published a 115-page "memorable history of England." Both men's work had appeared regularly in "Punch," the British humor ...