The earl was the king's ‘right hand man’ in a shire. The position was not hereditary, but it became usual in the 10th century to choose earls from a few outstanding families. The upper group ...

"The Last Kingdom" follows Uhtred of Bebbanburg, a young Saxon who is kidnapped and raised by Vikings before working for ...

It is a tale of endless war and at the end of it, in the early years of the 10th Century, a new nation is ... in the Somerset marshes it seemed that Saxon Britain was doomed, and that Alfred ...