Anglo-Saxon

Rune Temte as Ubba in 'The Last Kingdom'

Behind the scenes: series one of The Last Kingdom

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History quiz – Anglo-Saxons, Bright’s disease and the Byzantine army . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The 1016 Danish Conquest that led to the battle of Hastings

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Detail of a Viking helmet from grave one at Vendel, Uppland, Sweden. In the 860s and 870s, the Vikings would bring war to England’s four kingdoms on a massive scale. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The great Viking terror: how Norse warriors conquered the Anglo-Saxons . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Edmund II - better known as Edmund Ironside - shown in a 14th-century manuscript. (Photo by Wikimedia Commons)

Edmund Ironside: Anglo-Saxon warrior king

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A brief history of Offa’s Dyke

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The undignified fates of the bodies of Anglo-Saxon kings in the medieval period

King Ecgfrith of Northumbria

The Anglo-Saxon who (almost) united Britain

King Alfred The Great's statue designed by Hamo Thornycroft and erected in 1899 stands at the eastern end of the Broadway in Winchester, Hampshire, England. (Photo by Tony Baggett/iStock/Getty Images Plus)

Q&A How many English kings were known as ‘the Great’?

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Q&A Where does the name ‘London’ come from?

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Anglo-Saxon treasures, and did Britain invent freedom? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Alfred the Great

Michael Wood on Alfred the Great . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hamo Thornycroft's 1901 statue of King Alfred the Great in Winchester. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

Alfred the Great: do we overplay his ‘greatness’?

Aerial view of the Roman fort of Vercovicium

10 places where history was made

Medieval ploughmen ploughing with oxen

The dark side of the Anglo-Saxons