In 871 AD, Alfred defeated the Danes at the Battle of Ashdown in Berkshire. The following year, he succeeded his brother as king. Despite his success at Ashdown, the Danes continued to devastate ...

Artists and historians are hoping plans for a museum and art trail will help to mark a Viking clash that took place in ...

Much of this conflict is lost to history, including the location of the battle, as reports vary ... and his younger brother, the future Alfred the Great. That year, the Danes and Saxons fought ...

AN author from Bridgwater has written a book claiming that King Alfred’s defeat of the Vikings in 878 AD occurred in Somerset, not Wiltshire.

In the 1950 recording, preserved by GBH Archives, a Waltham doctor recalled his great-grandmother’s childhood account of the chaos on the first day of the Revolutionary War.