Anglo-Saxon

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‘Anglo-Saxon’ church uncovered beneath Lincoln Castle

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Bones exhumed from unmarked grave at ‘Alfred the Great’ church

Medieval ploughmen ploughing with oxen

The dark side of the Anglo-Saxons

Alfred the Great and Æthelflæd, 13th century

The Anglo-Saxon cunning woman

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The Library A new history of England and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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Bernard Cornwell on his novels

A memorial tomb to King Æthelstan, in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire. (Photo by Geography Photos/UIG via Getty Images)

If King Alfred was great, was Æthelstan even greater?

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The Library The 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

Modern day Kibworth, Leicestershire. (Alamy)

England in miniature

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1066: A New History of the Norman Conquest

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British History – the turning points

ilver penny of King Alfred

The real Alfred the Great