Sutton Hoo of the north: £10.4m visitor centre to celebrate Anglo-Saxon site
“Just here would have been the great hall,” says Chris Ferguson to a Guardian reporter and a dozen indifferent sheep chewing grass in a stunning
17 November 2021
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King Edmund the Martyr Killed by the Great Heathen Army
The Great Heathen Army landed in East Anglia in 865, led by the infamous Viking warrior Ivar the Boneless. The locals established an uneasy truce
20 November 2020
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla set during the Viking Age
With the popularity of Vikings and The Last Kingdom it’s no surprise that the next installment of Assassin’s Creed is set during the Viking Age.
1 May 2020
Long-lost Dark Ages abbey may have been found in Scotland
Excavations led by DigVentures have unearthed traces of a huge circular ditch at a site in Coldingham where the abbey, founded by Aebbe, an Anglo-Saxon
15 March 2019
The Warrior Queen By Joanna Arman
Æthelflæd, the Lady of the Mercians is a little known figure in early Medieval history who is starting to get her due. The daughter of
6 June 2017
Five missing medieval kings and queens – and where we might find them
As a second carpark becomes the suspected burial site of a medieval English monarch, we wonder: who else is still under the tarmac? As 2016
11 January 2016
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