Mary Ann Bernal

Whispered by the wise and the learned. Talked of in hushed tones round luminous firesides. Engraved by awestruck scribes in the sc...

Two years have passed since Alfred the Great successfully defeated Guthrum, King of the Vikings. The fair land of England is at...

King Alfred the Great has thwarted the Viking threat against his kingdom of Wessex. Signing a treaty with the formidable Danish King G...

History Extra Æthelstan is shown dressed as a pilgrim with Guy of Warwick in a scene from the 14th-century 'Chronicle of England...

Made from History This map shows how Britain was diveded up between the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the Middle Ages BY CRAIG BESSELL  I...

Ancient Origins The UK now has a female prime minister and Elizabeth II has been queen for more than six decades, but few would associa...

Ancient Origins Maybe you pictured Viking raiders numbering in the dozens or hundreds, making a beachhead in the middle of the night t...

Mary Anne Yarde  Author of the best selling Du Lac Chronicles series.  Born in Bath, England, Mary Anne Yarde grew up in the south...

Ancient Origins Stuart Brookes /The Conversation The Last Kingdom – BBC’s historical drama set in the time of Alfred the Great’s war ...

Ancient Origins It’s well chronicled that wave after wave of Vikings from Scandinavia terrorised western Europe for 250 years from the...

History Extra Alexander Dreymon plays Uhtred in The Last Kingdom. The drama – based on Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon novels – depicts Angl...