The names of foreign places can be filled with an inexplicable magic, as all travellers know, even in an age when this magic ...

Mercia saw the rise of kings, Christianity and our very identity, as Max Adams reveals in this genius history, The Mercian Chronicles ...

The base of a massive and vivid structure of the Hall of the First Kings of East Anglia was found in Rendlesham, Suffolk. The structure was uncovered by a community archaeological excavation as part ...

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(Pic credit: Tony Johnson) The settlement’s original name was spelt Gherinstone and it was also documented as Garsington or Gersington and the name derives from the Scandinavian, Anglo-Saxon and ...

Norfolk has the largest concentration of medieval churches in the world. Almost 1000 were built, and today an incredible 639 ...

Dating back to the eigth century, Offa's Dyke is a tangible sign of the emergence of a distinct Welsh identity. An earth structure, it was built by King Offa of Mercia, and at 270km long, it passed ...

These Columban monasteries played a leading role in the expansion of Christianity; they converted the Picts and restored Christianity to Anglo-Saxon Northumbria in the 7th century. In the second half ...

2 Peter 3:16 Ever since the Protestant Revolt in the 16th century ... on Saxon Bibles. During the 9th and 10th centuries, King Alfred the Great and Archbishop Aelfric worked on Anglo-Saxon ...

On a sunny September day in 1897, Harrisburg’s African American leaders led a crowd to a forested spot north of Harrisburg to ...