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In a land turning to the cross, Penda stood for the old gods—fierce, unyielding, and unconverted to the very end.
As part of an effort to make its instruction more “anti-racist,” Cambridge University is going to teach students that identities such as Anglo-Saxon are “constructed and contingen… ...
This prompted a letter of protest by 70 of the most prominent experts in the field, who argued that “Anglo-Saxon” is acceptable in both academia and popular culture all over the world, and ...
Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries was a key event in the formation of England. Following the collapse of Roman control over Britain, the Anglo-Saxons, a group of tribes from ...
The Bayeux Tapestry is returning to the UK more than 900 years after its creation, the Department for Culture, Media and ...
On this day in 2024, the East Anglian Daily Times reported that a 2,000-year-old Roman pan, discovered by a detectorist from ...
The Bayeux Tapestry is set to return to England for the first time in 900 years, The Telegraph can reveal. A loan deal for ...
In 1986, a sixth-century Byzantine copper-alloy bucket was found in the famous Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in England. It is decorated with a hunting scene, probably from North Africa. Now, ...
A lead-lined coffin that was discovered in northern England could offer clues about the area’s transition from the Roman Empire to its Anglo-Saxon period.
Following improvements in calibration, the group now believes only one individual was from continental Europe. The results support the view of other researchers that the introduction of Anglo-Saxon ...
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle identified King Eghbert as a bretwalda (again with the gift of hindsight), which serves as the crux of his candidacy for first king of England.