Ealhswith was the wife of Alfred the Great, but despite spending more than three decades beside one of England's most ...

Before England became a unified kingdom, the British Isles were divided between rival Anglo-Saxon rulers and powerful Viking ...

The story of the making of England is often represented as a battleground between the English and the Vikings, with waves of plunder, conquest and combat. Of the multiple English kingdoms, only one, ...

There are moments in history where a great deal hangs in the balance, meaning that if things had turned out slightly differently, the history which followed would be very different. In the history of ...