Saxons. Audio drama telling the story of 1066 - the year when England had three different kings. BBC School Radio. BBC Teach.

This documentary goes beyond the text of the epic poem and examines the history behind its writing With interviews and travels in Europe BEOWULF AND THE ANGLOSAXONS dives into the culture of the ...

Saxons. Audio drama telling the story of Alfred the Great and his struggles against the Vikings. BBC School Radio. BBC Teach.

“Beowulf,” the first great literary epic to come out of the British Isles, barely squeaked its way to us through time. Created between 650 and 850 A.D. and committed to manuscript circa 1000 A.D., it ...

A unique Anglo-Saxon experience to be held on Saturday, 16 February and 14 March 2008 should appeal to film goers who enjoyed the recent blockbuster movie Beowulf. The climax of the enthralling ...

My thanks for one of your wonderful book reviews. On your pages, I find books that other, more “trendy” reviewers largely ignore. This one, “The Wordhord” by Hana Videen, reviewed by Henry Hitchings ...

The five centuries between the end of Roman rule and the Norman Conquest were, for a long time, seen as a culturally desolate era in British history. Whereas classical civilisation was associated with ...

The Anglo-Saxons were a group of Germanic tribes who gradually invaded England starting in the 5th century in the wake of the collapse of the Roman Empire. Originally, they came from what is now the ...