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After the Normans took control of England, the Anglo-Saxons experienced a significant shift. Join us as we uncover what happened to them in the aftermath of the 1066 conquest. Taking photos and videos ...

In the 400s, the Western Roman Empire abandoned Britain to its own devices. Twin brothers Hengist and Horsa saw an opportunity to lead an Anglo-Saxon invasion and reshape England’s identity. But ...

FEW groups of people exert more power on English imagination than the Anglo-Saxons. They first appear in the historical record in the 1st millennium AD, in the wake of the Roman Empire’s retreat from ...

In the sixth century, a monk named Gildas described the arrival of the Saxons in Britain as a mass movement of German and Scandinavian mercenaries, who descended on the island as a punishment. His ...