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.

In 2021, archaeologists made an extraordinary discovery, identifying a British cave dwelling as the refuge of an exiled Anglo-Saxon king. Once dismissed as a quirky architectural joke, this ...

The tenth century sees the beginnings of a money economy in England, and coinage is one of the great achievements of the later Anglo-Saxon 'state'. Indeed, it is one of our key pieces of evidence ...

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

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

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 ...

Metal detectorists have found a rare gold and garnet raven head in southwestern England’s Wiltshire from the Anglo-Saxon period about 1,400 years ago. They have also unearthed a gold band or ...