Who were the Anglo-Saxons? The Anglo-Saxon age in Britain was from around AD410 to 1066. Find out who they were and where they came from. Why did the Anglo-Saxons come to Britain? Find out what ...

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 ...

as Max Adams reveals in this genius history, The Mercian Chronicles Mercia is something of an orphan among the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England. Despite having dominated the country’s core for a ...

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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 ...