Island nations are exposed to all manner of intriguing customs, cuisines and cultural quirks. They can also wind up with some ...

Who were the Anglo-Saxons? The Anglo-Saxon age in Britain was from around AD410 to 1066. Find out who they were and where they came from. Why did the Anglo-Saxons come to Britain? Find out what ...

A storyteller played music on a small harp or a lyre to accompany their stories and poems. Anglo-Saxon jewellers made brooches, beads and gold ornaments. At first, their artwork was pagan ...

First, the Romano-Celts drew on the tradition of the trained ... He extrapolates from this to the bit-by-bit spread of the original Anglo-Saxon kingships – first East Anglia, then Wessex, then ...

The idea persists that, in contrast to the Anglo-Saxon regions of eastern Britain, the Celtic West was at the 'edge of the earth', and was a land of tyrants and barbarians, who, in their isolation, ...

Early Medieval England and its Neighbours is a world-leading journal that includes a variety of works by academics in Cambridge's Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. The department ...

bowls from the Celts in western England, silver plates from the Byzantine Empire, and garnets that likely came all the way from India or Sri Lanka. Much is still unknown about the Anglo-Saxons ...

Rhodri Mawr brought the kingdoms of Gwynedd, Powys and Seisyllwg under his control, and fought the threats of the Anglo Saxons and Vikings. Rhodri Mawr was the first ruler of Wales to be given the ...