Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan ...

Harold’s defeat at Hastings marked the end of the Anglo-Saxon dynasty. On Christmas day 1066 William was crowned king of England and the land became ruled by Normans. So, 1066 was the year when ...

Although rusted and fragmentary, the helmet reflects the power of its owner, who may have been the Anglo-Saxon king Rædwald. The reconstructed helmet — which consists of a cap, cheek pieces ...