It begins with the story of Hengist and Horsa in AD 449. Anglo-Saxon rule came to an end in 1066, soon after the death of Edward the Confessor, who had no heir. He had supposedly willed the ...

A strong and successful leader became 'cyning', the Anglo-Saxon word for 'king'. Each king ruled a kingdom and led a small army. The Anglo-Saxon kings were from ruling families who passed ...

In 927, Athelstan became the first king to rule over all of England — and it hadn't been an easy journey. Though he was the ...

But it is the six centuries of Anglo-Saxon rule, from shortly after the departure of the Roman colonizers, around A.D. 410, to the Norman Conquest in 1066, that most define what we now call England.

Archaeologists have made a stunning breakthrough after discovering an 11th Centry medieval toilet that has helped to unravel a 2,000-year-old mystery. Researchers from the University of Exeter and ...

But King Offa still overshadows all, having dominated the other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms for the last ... in which experiments in the nature of royal rule, in state-building, administration and ...

the understanding scholars had of the early Anglo-Saxon period in England following the collapse of Roman rule. At first, Brown assumed that any artifacts that had once lain in the mounds would ...