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A brief history of Offa’s Dyke

The undignified fates of the bodies of Anglo-Saxon kings in the medieval period

King Ecgfrith of Northumbria

The Anglo-Saxon who (almost) united Britain

King Alfred The Great's statue designed by Hamo Thornycroft and erected in 1899 stands at the eastern end of the Broadway in Winchester, Hampshire, England. (Photo by Tony Baggett/iStock/Getty Images Plus)

Q&AHow many English kings were known as ‘the Great’?

Q&AWhere does the name ‘London’ come from?

Anglo-Saxon treasures, and did Britain invent freedom?

Michael Wood on Alfred the Great

Hamo Thornycroft's 1901 statue of King Alfred the Great in Winchester. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

Alfred the Great: do we overplay his 'greatness'?

Aerial view of the Roman fort of Vercovicium

10 places where history was made

Medieval ploughmen ploughing with oxen

The dark side of the Anglo-Saxons

Alfred the Great and Æthelflæd, 13th century

The Anglo-Saxon cunning woman

The LibraryA new history of England and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Bernard Cornwell on his novels

The LibraryThe Duke of Wellington and Alfred the Great

The Abingdon Sword, an iron sword fragment and hilt found near Abingdon in Oxfordshire in 1874. The decoration on the sword hilt indicates this was a high status weapon dating from around AD 875. (Ashmolean Museum/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Fighting the Vikings

England in miniature

British history: the turning points

ilver penny of King Alfred

The real Alfred the Great