History documentary dealing with the origins of the British monarchy amid the Anglo-Saxon / Viking wars of early medieval England. Today, the United Kingdom is among the world’s most celebrated ...

Anglo-Saxon was a way to distinguish genteel old-money types, such as nativist Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, from members of inferior races who had names such as, well, McCarthy.

Nestled in a sandstone crag along a winding river in the English countryside, a near-complete Anglo-Saxon cave house has been waiting to tell centuries-old stories. Perhaps one of a Northumbrian ...

Archaeologists in England have discovered the remains of a teenager and child buried in a spooning position in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery dating to the sixth or seventh century A.D.

The Anglo-Saxons also brought their own religious beliefs, but the arrival of Saint Augustine in 597 converted most of the country to Christianity. The Anglo-Saxon period lasted for 600 years, ...

Historians had long assumed that Anglo-Saxon elites ate far more meat than the peasantry they lorded over because of documents itemizing food tributes, known as “feorm” in Old English.

The Anglo-Saxons had consolidated their kingdoms over time, and by 927 A.D. King Æthelstan of Wessex had taken over most of the island. His incursions into Scotland and Wales gave him an ...