National histories are always something of a stitch-up ... the history of these islands is layered, interwoven, visibly and ...

The first named person to appear in Amersham Museum’s Timeline is Queen Edith, the wife of Edward the Confessor, and the last Anglo Saxon Queen ...

From the very first minute Meghan turned a corner in Toronto and appeared at the 2017 Invictus Games to make her ...

Assassins, royal marriages and diplomatic gift-giving: historian and archaeologist Max Adams explains how the kings of Mercia ...

After the Normans took control of England, the Anglo-Saxons experienced a significant shift. Join us as we uncover what happened to them in the aftermath of the 1066 conquest ...

The Anglo-Saxon period, also known as the ‘Dark Ages’ stretched from the withdrawal of Roman forces in 410 AD to the conquest of England by William of Normandy in 1066. The period is ...

The last Anglo-Saxon king of England: After being elected as monarch by the Witan (a sort of English parliament), Harold was crowned king, as portrayed in this 13th century image. (Wikimedia Commons) ...

The last Anglo-Saxon King of England Harold Godwinson (Harold II) ruled for only nine months in 1066 before he was killed in the critical Battle of Hastings.

Harold Goodwinson was the last Anglo-Saxon English king who famously died at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. His death resulted in William the Conquer ascending the throne, bringing England under ...

Recent archaeological findings have shed new light on a long-standing mystery about Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England. A collaborative study conducted by the Universities of ...

If Harold’s aim of strengthening England was wise, his means were hard to digest. For the true cause for 1066 – and the end of the Anglo-Saxon era – was a searing sibling rivalry.

“There was a big Anglo-Saxon church there called St Mary’s where he was brought to be buried. That was knocked down 200 years after his death to make way for the new abbey.