Let us now return To English history And find out what becomes Of the Anglo-Saxon dynasty. Edward the Confessor dies But sadly leaves no heir Three men want to take his crown Of them we should be ...

Small decorative details on an iconic helmet belonging to “Britain’s Tutankhamen” could revise our understanding of early ...

Anglo-Saxon rule came to an end in 1066 ... but he failed in his attempt to defend his crown, when William and an invading army crossed the Channel from France to claim it for himself.

But William was in luck: the structure of power he inherited from the Anglo-Saxon kings had a relatively sophisticated system of property rights that were centralised in the hands of the Crown. This ...

This story appears in the November 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. One day, or perhaps one night, in the late seventh century an unknown party traveled along an old Roman road that cut ...