The Vikings invaded England in the 9th and 10th centuries. They plundered, raped and burned towns to the ground. Or at least, this is the story we know from school and popular culture. Nevertheless, ...

Have you ever wondered where some UK cities got their names? Well, the North of England in medieval times was a violent place besieged by battles. Both the Celts, the Anglo-Saxons, and the Romans were ...

You hear the term everywhere these days in politics, pop music, business, even race relations. Anglo-Saxon. With the advent of the Human Genome Project, we now know a bit more about who the ...

A system of racial segregation imposed by early Anglo-Saxon invaders in England may have massively boosted the breeding of the Germanic interlopers, much to the detriment of the native Celtic race, ...

Anglo-Saxons, Celts and Picts at Turf Moor. Burnley manager Sean Dyche and his newly formed recruitment team have been unusually active and effective in readiness for the new challenges that lay ahead ...

MEN living in Wales are genetically distinct from men living in England. The surprising finding reveals the true extent of the Anglo-Saxon invasion of ancient Britain around 1500 years ago. After the ...

Long before it became the top exporter of brooding BBC actors or steamed puddings, the United Kingdom was simply a cold, rocky island off the coast of Europe. It wasn’t until the arrival of ...

While the Irish national identity took another millennium to undergo the same formational the English principally defined itself by creating a dynamic between two peoples whose core identities were, ...