In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England revealed their astounding contents: the remains of an Anglo-Saxon funerary ship and a huge cache of seventh-century royal treasure. In southern ...

My ancestors - the early Anglo-Saxons - came to Britain in a boat not much bigger than this one. Are you coming with me? Hah! Go in a silly little boat like that? Suit yourself! Bigger isn't ...

Near the end of Roman rule, Britain was being attacked by the Picts and Scots from the north, and the Anglo-Saxons from the sea. The Romans built forts to defend the coast and Hadrian's wall ...