Anglo-Saxons was the name given to this group of ... He is widely considered to be the first king of a united England. In the 700s, a monk called the Venerable Bede who lived in Northumbria ...

That’s how the monk Asser records the birth of Alfred, the Saxon child who would lead the fight against the Vikings, promote learning throughout his kingdom he ruled and try to unite the Anglo ...

February 2 marks the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple. St Bede wrote of Christ as the Temple itself A sublime if slightly rubbed illumination stands at the start of the Gospels in the Codex ...

The name could also have Anglo-Saxon roots, where similar-sounding names ... Saint Ailbhe of Munster was the monk who baptised the Welsh patron saint, St David. He is remembered in Wales as ...

Dating back to the eigth century, Offa's Dyke is a tangible sign of the emergence of a distinct Welsh identity. An earth ...

However it soon became tolerated. The earliest Christian object found in Wales is a vessel with the ancient Christian symbol ...

It took a monk about a year to hand copy the entire ... King Alfred the Great and Archbishop Aelfric worked on Anglo-Saxon (Old English) translations. After the Norman conquest of 1066, a need ...

I reach the final column in my series on the lost ancient kingdoms of Scotland and I am concluding with Bernicia, which flourished in ...