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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 ...

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle shaped how we remember the making of England, but it was also propaganda, and it quietly buried Mercia’s greatest victories. From Æthelflæd’s refortification of Chester to a ...

A new study from archaeologists at University of Sydney and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, has provided important new evidence to answer the question "Who exactly were the Anglo-Saxons?" New ...

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 olden script penned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles details a gruelling clash: "Her waes Weala gefeoht Defna aet Gafulford". This translates to a rather stark recount of events: "There was a fight ...

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 ...

Bernard Cornwell takes us to a moment in the English isles' misty past when the dream of unity was a fragile, endangered thing. His novel "Death of Kings" is set in the late ninth century, a time of ...

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 ...