Long before it became the top exporter of brooding BBC actors or steamed puddings, the United Kingdom was simply a cold, rocky island off the coast of Europe. It wasn’t until the arrival of ...

Charlemagne’s long war against the Saxons was one of the most relentless conflicts of the early Middle Ages. The clash at ...

The European Middle Ages seem to be having a moment. Although it’s true that, essentially since the time they ended, the period has been used to justify the shape of an author’s contemporary world, ...

Archaeologists have provided important new evidence to answer the question 'who exactly were the Anglo-Saxons?' New findings based on studying skeletal remains clearly indicates the Anglo-Saxons were ...

DNA tests on 7th-century remains at an "upper crust" Anglo-Saxon cemetary in Kent, England, reveal some of those buried there had far-flung genetic origins. One girl's paternal grandfather was "100% ...