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 ...

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw land territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland. He was the first 'King of all ...

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

The Wiltshire town of Malmesbury - where the first King of England, Athelstan, was buried - was thrilled when an ...

Its people were a mixture of Anglo-Saxons and descendants of Viking settlers, who mostly lived in the north. The Anglo-Saxon King Alfred and his successors had halted the first Viking invasions. But ...

The broad-bladed Dane axe was their weapon of choice. Although originally composed of only Vikings from Scandinavia, Anglo-Saxons later joined the Varangian Guard in the eleventh century. This was ...

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Get ready to discover the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings in this hands-on workshop. Pupils have the opportunity to examine and handle replica objects that have been made in the same way as the originals.

established peace with the invading Vikings and founded the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the ineffectual Ethelred the Redeless (978-1016) and his pious son, Edward the Confessor (1042-1066) who was later ...

We often overlook the Anglo-Saxons in the curriculum, focusing on their far more exciting contemporaries – the Vikings. However, the Anglo-Saxons had a fundamental impact on the culture of Western ...