Near the end of Roman rule, Britain was being attacked by the Picts and Scots from the north, and the Anglo-Saxons from the sea. The Romans built forts to defend the coast and Hadrian's wall ...

In one Anglo-Saxon cemetery in eastern England rest the skeletons of two ... After Æthelred died in 1016 during a failed campaign to repel an invasion by Cnut the Great of Denmark, Emma married ...

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In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England revealed their astounding contents: the remains of an Anglo-Saxon funerary ship and a huge cache of seventh-century royal treasure. In southern ...

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is one of the ... Britain and a brief series of events in Roman Britain and Christianity beginning with Caesar’s invasion in 50 BCE. From the mid-fifth century onwards ...

A history of Britain during the six centuries ... century through the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons in the sixth. An interesting work for students of Roman governance, the Late Empire, Dark Ages, the ...

Alfred the Great, King of Wessex from 871 to 899, led the Anglo-Saxon resistance against Viking invasion. He was the first to adopt the title of King of the Anglo-Saxons, and his heirs would go on ...