Both the Celts, the Anglo Saxons, and the Romans were conquering, dividing, and taking the country for their own. Across the ...

On September 25, 1066, King Harold Godwinson's Saxon army had just force-marched nearly 200 miles in four days to confront a Norwegian invasion led by Harald Hardrada—one of the most feared Viking ...

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a contemporary historical account, records that the Vikings waged some 50 battles and destroyed or ravaged scores of settlements. Dublin, one of the largest Viking cities in ...

Bernard Cornwell takes us to a moment in the English isles' misty past when the dream of unity was a fragile, endangered thing. His novel "Death of Kings" is set in the late 9th century, a time of ...

In the aftermath of the Shropshire canal drama I was interested to read the recent account of the Dudley Port disaster, when ...

"Originally published in Great Britain under the title Blood of the Isles: exploring the genetic roots of our tribal history"--T.p. verso.