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c60 AD, Queen Boudica of the Iceni holding a spear. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) 

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8 things you may not know about British history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

For 10th-century warriors, the appearance of wolves, ravens and eagles on the battlefield meant an unlucky few had been chosen to die. Eric Lacey digs into a grisly superstition. (Illustration by Ross Craig for BBC History Magazine)

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The LibraryAnglo-Saxon beasts of death. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Codex Amiatinus – one of three huge Latin bibles produced at the twin monasteries of Wearmouth-Jarrow in the north-east of England in the early eighth century. (Photo by Sam Lane Photography/British Library)

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Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: 10 things we learned. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bernard Cornwell. (Photo by Felix Clay)

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Bernard Cornwell on The Last Kingdom. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A wooden cross marks the spot, just over 20 miles west of Newcastle, where Oswald apparently raised his own cross before ambushing Cadwallon. If the Anglo-Saxon warlord's attack had failed, writes Edoardo Albert, England might now be a lot smaller. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Hell in Heavenfield: the Anglo-Saxon battle "as important as Hastings". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Our illustration shows King Arthur leading his troops into battle. The legendary warlord's victories over Saxon invaders first appear in a 'history' written in the ninth-century north Wales. (Illustration by Georgie Gozem for BBC History Magazine)

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The King Arthur delusion: a case of medieval fake news?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The remarkable Codex Amiatinus, a "giant of a book", and part of a new exhibition at the British Library. (Photo by Sam Lane Photography/British Library)

Anglo-SaxonvideoWatch: Highlights from the British Library's new Anglo-Saxon exhibition

Jewelled terminal of aestel, The Alfred Jewel. (Photo by Alamy)

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The remarkable Codex Amiatinus, a "brute of a book", and part of a new exhibition at the British Library. (c) Sam Lane Photography/British Library)

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"An absolute gem": Anglo-Saxons at the British Library. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A detail from the Bayeux Tapestry depicting the death of Harold Godwinson at the battle of Hastings, 1066. Victory at Hastings did not make Duke William of Normandy king of England – at least, not immediately. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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Q&AWhat happened after the Battle of Hastings?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sunlight dapples a clearing in Sherwood Forest, which was an essential resource for peasants centuries before it became a tourist attraction (Photo by Alamy)

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Harold Godwinson’s two eldest sons fled to Ireland after the Battle of Hastings, where they lived as guests of the King of Leinster. (Photo by Duncan1890 via Getty Images)

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Q&AWhat happened to Harold Godwinson’s children after the Battle of Hastings?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Old Wardour Castle

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A statue of Æthelflæd which stands in the grounds of Tamworth Castle in Staffordshire. (Photo by Chris Gibson/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Æthelflæd: iron lady of Mercia. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How English is the Bayeux Tapestry?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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6 trivial decisions that changed British history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Alfred the Great and science at Christmas. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustation by Femke de Jong.

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Michael Wood on Anglo-Saxon Christianity. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ælfthryth: England’s first queen

The Knights of the Round (Miniature from La Quête du Saint Graal et la Mort d'Arthus), c1220. Found in the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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King Arthur: the big questions. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rune Temte as Ubba in 'The Last Kingdom'

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Behind the scenes: series one of The Last Kingdom

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History quiz – Anglo-Saxons, Bright’s disease and the Byzantine army. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The 1016 Danish Conquest that led to the battle of Hastings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Detail of a Viking helmet from grave one at Vendel, Uppland, Sweden. In the 860s and 870s, the Vikings would bring war to England’s four kingdoms on a massive scale. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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The great Viking terror: how Norse warriors conquered the Anglo-Saxons. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Edmund II - better known as Edmund Ironside - shown in a 14th-century manuscript. (Photo by Wikimedia Commons)

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Edmund Ironside: Anglo-Saxon warrior king

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A brief history of Offa’s Dyke

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The undignified fates of the bodies of Anglo-Saxon kings in the medieval period. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

King Ecgfrith of Northumbria

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The Anglo-Saxon who (almost) united Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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)

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