What was the most important battle in English history? If you answered the Battle of Hastings, the 1066 A.D. conflict in which the Normans successfully took over the English crown, you’re not alone.

VIKING fever has descended on a County Durham village after it was identified as a possible location for one of the most important battles in English history. In their new book, Brunanburh Located ...

BARNSDALE, England—Over 1,000 years ago, vast armies from what are now Scotland and Ireland swept into a field here to be defeated by soldiers from the emerging nation of England. No they didn’t, says ...

Edmund was only seventeen when he fought beside his brother Athelstan at the Battle of Brunanburh — one of the bloodiest clashes in English history. Two years later, he inherited the throne of a ...

A history enthusiast and poet from Burnley believes his home town was the site of a bloody and legendary Anglo-Saxon battle.

I AM not great at self-promotion but I feel I must respond to the Echo article on Brunanburh by Lizzie Anderson (Echo, June 11). While I have not had the chance to read the book by Bjornsson and ...

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Studies in Philology has been a leader in literary scholarship since 1906. Through the whole of its history, the journal’s home has been the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the ...

A historian who believes a bloody medieval battle, which defined the course of English history, took place in the North-East has visited the site he claims saw the slaughter of thousands of men. Dr ...

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