Thomas Atwood dropped a hornet’s nest down his stepmother’s dress and unleashed an epic tale: 7’ giants, snuff-chewing women, ...

This gives us an idea of how difficult life could be in early medieval England. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle close Anglo-Saxon ChronicleA collection of manuscripts written while Alfred the Great was ...

One hundred and five years after its implementation, and 92 years after it was repealed, alcohol consumption remains a controversial issue in the U.S. Earlier this month, the U.S. Surgeon General ...

VILLAGERS in Evenwood feel that their broad and pleasing village green is under threat from a developer who wants to turn an old farm cart ...

According to a BBC News report, a hoard of coins was discovered in eastern England during an investigation conducted ahead of ...

He also told monks to begin writing the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. To help protect his kingdom from Viking attacks, Alfred built forts and walled towns known as ‘burhs’. He also built warships to ...

Beowulf, the hero of an early Anglo-Saxon poem, likewise does not show signs of slowing down until old age, when a dragon proves too much for him to kill without help from a much younger man.

It was first recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 1038: ‘forðferde... þa toforan Cristes mæssan Brihteh biscop on Wigraceastrescire.’ (‘Then, before Christmas, died Bishop Brihteh in ...

The English village. Perhaps the beguiling habitat closest to the English heart, the place in which everyone dreams of living ...

Worsley, voice-over: According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the king was informed that the people in the North had gathered together and planned to make a stand against him if he came near. ♪ In 1068 ...