Long before medieval crowns and royal courts, England’s earliest kings traced their bloodline to a god—Woden. From Hengest ...

Born into the chaos of the Viking Age, Aethelflaed of Mercia rose from a besieged Anglo-Saxon world to become one of the most ...

When was England’s first Parliament? Many people consider Simon de Montfort’s Parliament convened on 20th January 1265 as the first representative parliament however, Britain’s parliamentary history ...

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The Staffordshire Hoard, as it was quickly dubbed, electrified the general public and Anglo-Saxon scholars alike. Spectacular discoveries, such as the royal finds at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, had been ...