The Viking Age saw the pillaging of the British Isles, France, and the Mediterranean until inequality, Christianity, and sex ...

Whatever it is about medieval England that fired up a metalhead from Old Kilpatrick to start writing historical novels, it’s clearly potent ...

In AD892, over 300 Viking ships invaded Britain to fight King Alfred of Wessex. No one knows how big the Viking army was but if there were 20 men in each Viking ship, the army of AD892 numbered 6000!

When Alfred was ready to leave the marshes he took off his disguise and dressed once more as king… FX: Drum beat …and from all over Wessex people came to join him, ready to fight the Vikings.

As the oldest daughter of Alfred the Great, it could be said that Aethelflaed was born into greatness. Contemporary chroniclers and English historians generally agree that she fulfilled this potential ...

Historians believed the coins were Anglo-Saxon and to have been hidden by a Viking. One of them was a double-headed coin, showing two rulers of England - Alfred the Great, who ruled Wessex ...

Historians believed the coins were Anglo-Saxon and to have been hidden by a Viking. One of them was a double-headed coin, showing two rulers of England - Alfred the Great, who ruled Wessex, and ...

Mercia saw the rise of kings, Christianity and our very identity, as Max Adams reveals in this genius history, The Mercian Chronicles ...

They also discovered up to 300 coins, some from the reign of King ... by a Viking. One of them was a double-headed coin, showing two rulers of England - Alfred the Great, who ruled Wessex, and ...