November is the day when Anglicans remember St Hilda of Whitby. She was a powerful and important woman in the history of the ...

Archaeologists in England have identified a near-complete Anglo-Saxon cave house, which, they say, may once have been the home of a king who became a saint. Thought to date from the early 9th century, ...

A new, old specter is haunting the world: the bloodthirsty Anglo-Saxons. Well, that is what the Kremlin wants the world to believe. Take the new Russian state-backed film “Tolerance.” Released in ...

Discover the pivotal moments in the history of North East England, from Celtic struggles to the rise of Christianity in ...

When an Anglo-Saxon warrior king died 1,400 years ago in East Anglia in the United Kingdom, he was placed inside a ship and surrounded by treasures. The 90-foot-long (27.4-meter-long) wooden ship, ...

This dissertation analyzes personified objects in Anglo-Saxon poetry alongside surviving inscribed objects to show how the Anglo-Saxons perceived writing as a wondrous and powerful technology that was ...

LONDON — Newly revealed human remains could offer a rare glimpse into life in Britain through the decline of the Roman Empire and the establishment of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Experts have hailed the ...

Metal detectorists have found a rare gold and garnet raven head in southwestern England’s Wiltshire from the Anglo-Saxon period about 1,400 years ago. They have also unearthed a gold band or ring ...

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