Aethelstan: a royal who united Britain, doesn't get the needed honor of first English King—historians want to change it Several historians are asking Aethelstan to be considered the first English king ...

On the 1,100th year anniversary of the coronation of England's first king, children joined a celebration to remember him.

Cuthberga was a former Anglo-Saxon Queen turned religious leader, who was a woman of deep faith and learning who died 1,300 ...

A University of Cambridge academic has joined calls for greater recognition of the first king of England. Aethelstan ruled ...

Anglo-Saxon kings were mostly veggie but peasants treated them to huge barbecues, new study argues Date: April 21, 2022 Source: University of Cambridge Summary: Very few people in England ate ...

But a pair of Cambridge co-authored studies published today in the journal Anglo-Saxon England present a very different picture, one which could transform our understanding of early medieval ...

Meat-heavy banquets have long been thought to be a common feature of early medieval life for England’s kings and nobles, who feasted on legs of animal flesh and knocked back goblets of ale in ...

Historians had long assumed that Anglo-Saxon elites ate far more meat than the peasantry they lorded over because of documents itemizing food tributes, known as "feorm" in Old English.

West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village, an archaeological site and open-air museum in Suffolk, eastern England. A study shows there is no sign that Anglo-Saxon kings and other elites consumed more meat ...

An Anglo-Saxon warrior king was buried within a wooden ship at Sutton Hoo 1,400 years ago in East Anglia in England. Now, a team is reconstructing the iconic ship, discovered during a 1939 ...