After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...

Across the channel in England, sporadic raids expanded into total warfare, as a Viking army invaded and conquered three Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, leaving bodies to rot in the fields. The Viking age, ...

Monarchs of Northumbria. Discover the story of the kings of Northumbria from Oswiu ( c. 654 – c. 670 AD ) to Ælla ( c. 862 – ...

Vikings was one of the shows at the heart ... and continued to explore the tensions between the Anglo-Saxons and the Danes.

During his reign from 924 to 939, Athelstan united the Anglo-Saxons, defeated the Vikings and became the first king of England after seizing control of Northumbria. He was the first monarch to be ...

Anglo-Saxon kings were mostly vegetarian before the Vikings settled, according to new studies. Cambridge University researchers analysed more than 2,000 skeletons and found elites ate no more meat ...

It is only higher education institution in the UK to offer a Viking Studies course but now Nottingham wants to rename an ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Vikings Hnefatafl: Kings of the Dark Age In the late 8th century, Anglo-Saxon Britain faces a threat like none before: northmen from across the seas ...

A Lancashire metal detectorist who tried to flog Anglo-Saxon coins online has seen an appeal to reduce his prison sentence ...

Two metal detectorists who planned to “delete history” by illegally selling Anglo-Saxon coins have had bids to reduce their ...

In the hands of great raconteurs like Stephen Fry, the retelling of classical stories turns into a form of its own ...

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...