The Bayeux Tapestry depicting the conquest of England will be displayed in the U.K. for the first time in almost 1,000 years ...

The first named person to appear in Amersham Museum’s Timeline is Queen Edith, the wife of Edward the Confessor, and the last Anglo Saxon Queen ...

Aethelred II – best known by the epithet, ‘the Unready’ – was king of the English for two periods, from AD 978 to 1013, and a brief second spell from 1014 to 1016. His combined reign of nearly 38 ...

The towering castles that dot England’s landscape symbolize power, conquest, and control. For centuries, they have been viewed as monuments to the Norman elite who reshaped the country after 1066.

They considered themselves an Anglo-Saxon remnant on a divine mission to build a city on a hill reflecting their righteous and noble heritage. In short order, Whiteness became the racial marker of ...

The Tapestry culminates in William’s victory at Hastings, but earlier in the artwork Bosham is shown as the place where Harold enjoys a feast in an extravagant hall before setting sail for France, and ...

Archaeologists discovered a sixth-century sword in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in the British county of Kent. The immaculately preserved sword was one of a handful of artifacts found at a site that ...

Northumbria was one of the great seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England, alongside East Anglia (East Angles), Essex (East Saxons), Kent, Mercia, Sussex (South Saxons) and Wessex (West Saxons).

Because the earliest Anglo-Saxon converts to Christianity were from noble families, with its adoption filtering down through the social hierarchy, the teenager buried at Trumpington Meadows was ...

A major university in England is reportedly distancing itself from the term "Anglo-Saxon" out of concern it evokes an exclusive racial identity that could evoke nationalism.

A university has removed the term Anglo-Saxon from module titles in a bid to 'decolonise the curriculum.' The University of Nottingham is removing the expression from a number of courses ...

At the foot of Yeavering Bell in the vale formed by the River Glen on the edge of Northumberland National Park once stood the Royal Anglo-Saxon palace and town of Ad Gefrin. And on the northern ...