Somewhere in England, buried in soil for more than a millennium, two silver pennies lay hidden with an image no other ...

Over the past month, our understanding of England’s distant past has been upended—not by trained archaeologists, but by two hobbyists with simple metal detectors. While prospecting in village ...

On the grounds of a sprawling Suffolk park, an unusual blend of book, bow and and the feeling of time travel awaits visitors. The Anglo-Saxon village in West Stow Country Park provides a hands-on ...

The familiar tale of Norman oppressors and Saxon victims after 1066 makes for great legend, but this story argues that the ...

You hear the term everywhere these days in politics, pop music, business, even race relations. Anglo-Saxon. With the advent of the Human Genome Project, we now know a bit more about who the ...

During England’s late Anglo-Saxon period, before the Norman Conquest of 1066, “people of means moved heaven and earth to get silk because it allowed them to appropriate its associated meanings for ...

We should, however, always be aware of where our history comes from, and the account above is one that comes from - to use a modern term - the spin doctors of Alfred's dynasty. Specifically from the ...

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 ...