The Anglo-Saxons were warrior farmers originally from north western Europe. They rowed across the North Sea in wooden boats known as long boats and began to invade Britain during the time that the region was under the control of the Romans. They were easily identified by their tall stature, fair hair, swords, spears, and round…
Before the Norman Conquest in 1066, England was ruled by a series of powerful queens and queen consorts who left their mark on the country’s history. From Boudica, the warrior queen who led a rebellion against the Romans, to Æthelflæd, who retook the city of Derby from the Vikings, these women played an important role…
Alfred the Great is probably the most famous of the Anglo-Saxon Kings. He was King of Wessex between 871 and 899. Wessex was one of the seven Anglo Saxon Kingdoms. The others being East Anglia, Mercia, Northumbria, Essex, Kent and Sussex. He wasn’t King of England because there were Anglo Saxon Kings in all of…
