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Illustation by Femke de Jong.

Michael Wood on Anglo-Saxon Christianity. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Sarah Young

Ælfthryth: England’s first queen

The Knights of the Round (Miniature from La Quête du Saint Graal et la Mort d'Arthus), c1220. Found in the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

King Arthur: the big questions. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rune Temte as Ubba in 'The Last Kingdom'

Behind the scenes: series one of The Last Kingdom

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

The 1016 Danish Conquest that led to the battle of Hastings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

A brief history of Offa’s Dyke

The undignified fates of the bodies of Anglo-Saxon kings in the medieval period. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

King Ecgfrith of Northumbria

The Anglo-Saxon who (almost) united Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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&AHow many English kings were known as ‘the Great’?

Q&AWhere does the name ‘London’ come from?

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

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'?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Aerial view of the Roman fort of Vercovicium

10 places where history was made. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Medieval ploughmen ploughing with oxen

The dark side of the Anglo-Saxons. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Alfred the Great and Æthelflæd, 13th century

The Anglo-Saxon cunning woman. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The LibraryA new history of England and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bernard Cornwell on his novels. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The LibraryThe Duke of Wellington and Alfred the Great. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Abingdon Sword, an iron sword fragment and hilt found near Abingdon in Oxfordshire in 1874. The decoration on the sword hilt indicates this was a high status weapon dating from around AD 875. (Ashmolean Museum/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Fighting the Vikings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

England in miniature. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British history: the turning points. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

ilver penny of King Alfred

The real Alfred the Great. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.