BARNSDALE, England—Over 1,000 years ago, vast armies from what are now Scotland and Ireland swept into a field here to be defeated by soldiers from the emerging nation of England. No they didn’t, says ...
What was the most important battle in English history? If you answered the Battle of Hastings, the 1066 A.D. conflict in which the Normans successfully took over the English crown, you’re not alone.
Edmund was only seventeen when he fought beside his brother Athelstan at the Battle of Brunanburh — one of the bloodiest clashes in English history. Two years later, he inherited the throne of a ...
The Battle of Brunanburh was one of the bloodiest and biggest battles of early medieval history. The battle features in the new Netflix movie 'The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die', but what really ...