They destroyed several of the ancient English kingdoms, the Northumbrians and the East Angles. This forced the defending English kingdoms to define very clearly what they were fighting for.

It seems reasonable that when Bede the Venerable (who lived between the 7th and 8th centuries) talks about Severus’s Wall in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, he is actually referring ...

History documentary dealing with the origins of the British monarchy amid the Anglo-Saxon / Viking wars of early medieval England. Today, the United Kingdom is among the world’s most celebrated ...

Between AD 650 and 750, Britain's lowland zone became firmly English. Even in southern Scotland, most of the Brythonic or Welsh kingdoms came under English or Anglian control. Yet before that ...