The sovereign was the last Anglo-Saxon king of the House of Wessex, having taken over from the Dane Harthacnut. Before him ...

Visitors to the country’s second oldest cathedral will see projections on the walls of illuminated Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, art and architecture, revealing the “rich artistry” of the Dark Ages.

In Roman Britain many people had been Christians. But the early Anglo-Saxons were not Christians, they were pagans. Anglo-Saxons believed in lucky charms. They thought that rhymes, potions, stones ...