Thanks to Bede's work, the new Anglo-Saxon kingdoms come into the light of history at the beginning of the seventh century. In the south there were the kingdoms of Kent, of the South Saxons ...

Learn who Aethelflaed was and what the different kingdoms were in Anglo-Saxon Britain. Read how the country was ruled by different tribes in this BBC history guide.

An excavation has revealed an elaborate hall in the east of England of early Anglo-Saxon kings, which was used for feasting by monarchs and their warriors roughly 1,400 years ago.

In West Saxon, the kingdom was called the Mearc, that is ‘the Mark’, while its inhabitants were the Mierce (pronounced ‘Meercher’), ‘the people of the March’ or ‘the Borderers’. Mercia was, however, ...

The term Anglo-Saxon has been removed from a University’s module titles to tackle “nationalist narratives”. The University of Nottingham offers leading courses in Anglo-Saxon history and ...

An Anglo-Saxon complex which contains the remains of a 1,400-year-old royal hall is twice as big as originally thought, say archaeologists. The compound, near Sutton Hoo at Rendlesham in Suffolk ...

THE Department of Coins of the British Museum was considerably enriched some time ago by the valuable collection of Early English coins, bequeathed by the late Mr. T. G. Barnett, of Birmingham ...

A wealthy pagan burial ground, dating from the first years of the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain in the fifth century, has been uncovered near London ahead of a high-speed rail project.