These sports kept them fit for work and strong for war. Back to top Was Anglo-Saxon Britain in the 'dark ages'? Some people thought that after Rome, Britain went into a simple and gloomy ‘dark ...

Anglo-Saxons began to arrive in England in small numbers from AD410, and by AD500 were being fiercely resisted, in a period which used to be known as the Dark Ages, but is now called early ...

He is the author of several highly praised books on English history including In Search of the Dark Ages ... where he did post-graduate research in Anglo-Saxon history. He is a Fellow of the ...

In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England revealed their astounding contents: the remains of an Anglo-Saxon funerary ship and a huge cache of seventh-century royal treasure. In southern ...