Anglo-Saxons was the name given to this group of ... called Danelaw. Alfred expanded his kingdom, taking land from the Mercia area and winning control of London. Under his leadership, many books ...

A strong and successful leader became 'cyning', the Anglo-Saxon word for 'king'. Each king ruled a kingdom and led a small army. The Anglo-Saxon kings were from ruling families who passed ...

Central themes include the formation of power in early Anglo-Saxon kingdoms during the age of Bede (d. 735) and Offa of Mercia (757–96), authority and its articulation in the century from Edgar ...

which will go on display in the library's Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms exhibition in the autumn. Mr Crossley-Holland - for whom the monsters are like "humans gone wrong" and "terrifying because of that ...

once part of a defensive network against the Vikings in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of Mercia and Wessex. Oxford Archaeology said that the discovery gives the theory that Oxford was once much smaller ...

This story appears in the November 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. One day, or perhaps one night, in the late seventh century an unknown party traveled along an old Roman road that cut ...

and their role in promoting the ideologies of different Anglo-Saxon kings. Benjamin Snook gained his doctorate from Cambridge University. To save content items to your account, please confirm that you ...

It is only higher education institution in the UK to offer a Viking Studies course but now Nottingham wants to rename an ...

Oxford was part of a defensive network throughout the Anglo Saxon Kingdoms of Mercia and Wessex against the Vikings. Mr Ford added: "Using specialist equipment to extract cores of earth from deep ...