Cookham Abbey in Berkshire has received a £249,755 grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
After Rome’s collapse, London fell silent, then reemerged as a crossroads linking Anglo Saxons, Vikings, and distant Baltic traders. Following archaeology and rare eyewitness accounts, this episode ...
In 893, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a large Viking army landed at Appledore in east Kent, having rampaged through northern France and boarded 250 ships at Boulogne, writes Derek Carpenter.