Anglo-Saxon was a way to distinguish genteel old-money types, such as nativist Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, from members of inferior races who had names such as, well, McCarthy.

Learn about Anglo-Saxon craft, stories, games and sport in this BBC Bitesize KS2 History guide. ... Often their stories would be accompanied by music played on a string instrument called a lyre.

A 1,600-year-old lyre found in modern Kazakhstan matches musical instruments seen in Anglo-Saxon burials of the first millennium ad, suggesting that technology transfer occurred across thousands ...

The tomb of an Anglo-Saxon prince has revealed treasures such as a decorated lyre, painted woodwork and a gold belt buckle. The treasure-laden tomb is the first known Christian burial of an Anglo ...

Today, the term “Anglo-Saxon” is little used in mainstream American circles, perhaps as a chiding WASP label directed toward northeastern elites. But as news from earlier this year has shown ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Though almost all of the Anglo-Saxon prince's body had long since decayed, archaeologists ...

THE Anglo-Saxon tradition has “impregnated the political institutions of the Anglo-Saxon world on both sides of the Atlantic and has provided patterns to all Europe and to the lands that look to ...

New research questions famed burial of ‘first’ Christian Anglo-Saxon king. It was long suspected that the spectacular Prittlewell burial belonged to the first Christian leader of the Kingdom ...

British news outlet The Telegraph reported that the term "Anglo-Saxon" is under scrutiny at the University of Nottingham. "In a move to ‘decolonise the curriculum,’ professors have renamed a ...

An Anglo-Saxon warrior king was buried within a wooden ship at Sutton Hoo 1,400 years ago in East Anglia in England. Now, a team is reconstructing the iconic ship, discovered during a 1939 ...