The 890’s – storms are brewing in Valhalla. It's the final years of the reign of Alfred the Great. After a period of relative ...

The Last Kingdom has said goodbye to many fan-favourite characters throughout its five seasons on Netflix - but which of them ...

In January 878 AD, Alfred, king of Wessex, was on the verge of disaster. He had been ambushed and nearly killed by one of the most brutal armies ever to invade Britain: the Vikings. Within months ...

when the Great Army fled northward from Wessex after Alfred the Great’s victory over Guthrum, the king of the Vikings, at the Battle of Edington, in what is now Wiltshire. This battle ...

The Last Kingdom is based on the historical novels by Bernard Cornwell - and while Uhtred of Bebbanburg is a fictional ...

The island was occupied by three groups: the Earls of Northumberland, a group of Norse Viking aristocrats ... and by 927 A.D. King Æthelstan of Wessex had taken over most of the island.

The first of King Alfred’s battles against the Danes was in May 871 in Wilton, Wiltshire. This was to be a catastrophic defeat for Wessex, and as a consequence Alfred was forced to make peace with (or ...

The bloodbath at Brunanburh in 937 AD was fought by King Athelstan when he united the Anglo-Saxons for the first time to fight off a Viking invasion ... Athelstan and his brother Edmund returned to ...

King Ecbert is the ruler of Wessex, the largest of the five kingdoms in England ... Ecbert has always anticipated that he must someday face the Vikings and is prepared with strategies as to how they ...

“I have been focused on the King Alfred as a place, it would be a waste to be used for housing. “It’s a public place that’s sacred. Alliance Leisure has been appointed to design and ...