Æthelstan and the Anglo-Saxons claimed victory, and the survivors of the northern alliance fled to Ireland. A new era had begun. Æthelstan was now king of a new united nation, England, which he ...

The 68.3-meter-long (224-foot-long) tapestry depicts William, Duke of Normandy, and his army killing Harold Godwinson, or Harold II, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, at the Battle of Hastings.

The Anglo-Saxons gave us the most foremost language in the world, English, which derives from Old English or Anglo-Saxon. They unified what came to be England as we know it, while the English ...

The last Anglo-Saxon King of England. Harold Godwinson (Harold II) ruled for only nine months in 1066 before he was killed in the critical Battle of Hastings. His residence Bosham, on the coast of ...

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.