Buried in a Lancashire riverbank and ignored by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the story of the Viking warlord Ingimund and his ...

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 ...

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 ...

The tragic tale of Harold, the king who lost England to William the Conqueror in an infamous battle, still looms large in British popular culture. But that story may need a reset, according to new ...

Scene from the Bayeux Tapestry, which famously depicts William the Conqueror's victory over the so-called Anglo-Saxons Public domain via Wikimedia Commons People in the United States and Great Britain ...

The publication features more than 60 years of excavation and research into the city’s Old Minster, New Minster and Nunnaminster/St Mary's Abbey.

THIS book is suggestive, in the sense that while it raises many interesting problems, the material at present available does not admit their complete solution. Dealing with a period of about 200 years ...

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, ENGLAND—The Northampton Chronicle & Echo reports that an Anglo-Saxon settlement and cemetery, and Bronze Age barrows and burials, were discovered in England’s East Midlands during an ...