Ida of Bernicia is remembered as the first Anglo-Saxon king of the northern kingdom of Bernicia, ruling from about 547 until his death in 559. He did not inherit a peaceful realm, but seized territory ...

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 ...

Buried in a Lancashire riverbank and ignored by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the story of the Viking warlord Ingimund and his catastrophic siege of Chester reveals a chapter of early medieval history ...

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 ...

A fragment of 1,500-year-old cloth is still attached to a metal brooch found at the site. Courtesy of the Museum of London Archaeology Last year, two companies developing land near the small village ...

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 ...

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 ...