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

In the late 1880s, plans were made for a “National Commemoration”, to be staged in 1901, to celebrate what the Victorians thought was the millennium death of a figure they considered the founder of ...

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