In a land turning to the cross, Penda stood for the old gods—fierce, unyielding, and unconverted to the very end.

A stunning treasure trove of Anglo-Saxon coins reveals how rebellion, loyalty and fear shaped England in the wake of 1066.

Behind every king was a queen—and in Anglo-Saxon England, their lives were anything but peaceful. These royal women faced exile, poison, betrayal... and sometimes fought back.

You had to be careful of local feeling, during Anglo-Saxon times, and good kings usually were. That's not to say that there weren't many tensions in the early English polity. We know that freedom ...

The Anglo-Saxon contribution to English history isn’t merely incidental, as Higham and Ryan write. The name England means “land of the Angles.” ...

The discovery not only sheds light on the final Anglo-Saxon king, it also provides a rare window into a key turning point in history for England, researchers said. Medieval toilet and other key ...

Books Received Published: 23 February 1905 Social England An Introductory History of England Studies on Anglo-Saxon Institutions Nature 71, 385–386 (1905) Cite this article ...

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 ...

There are a number of candidates for England’s first royal coronation, but one man stands out as the origin of today's monarchy. This is the complex history that led to Aethelstan.

Officials said on Tuesday that the treasured medieval tapestry will be on loan from France and arrive next year at the ...

It doesn’t require a gauzily romantic view of the Anglo-Saxons to conclude that they deserve better than today’s self-loathing Anglo-Saxonists.

Roughly around 823 AD, though some accounts say 825 AD, something extraordinary occurred. The Cornish folk, known as the ...