Alfred the Great believed that the House of Wessex stretched back to the earliest days of Anglo Saxon England, to the early 6th century, and that the founder was a warrior - Cerdic. But Alfred was a master of propaganda, and was concerned to position Wess

How Anglo Saxons saw and celebrated their seasons

The English Holy Land

The story of the the 7th century king found under the sands at Sutton Hoo

A change of boss - or radical social change ?

The creation of the classic English village in champion land

The Danish wars from the 9th century had a enormous impact on the Anglo Saxon state. The national struggle to repel and survive meant the creation of a centralised bureaucratic state - to raise geld, armies, build burghs. The economy was stimulated, towns

The people of Warland had a responsibility to deploy its resources in defence of the well being of the state and community

The Church brings resident institutions, and to support them the land and people must work harder

Personal lordship based on mutual obligations of free peoples