In first place, because it gave Kingston its name, making it one of five royal boroughs in England and Wales; and also as it made the town the birthplace of England, where six more Anglo-Saxon ...

From barbarian invaders to devout Christian missionaries, the Anglo-Saxons brought four hundred years of religious evolution and shifting political power to the British Isles. English owes much to ...

He was crowned king on September 4, 925, in Kingston-upon-Thames ... (Vikings had started raiding Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the late eighth century, and had established footholds in the north ...

In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England revealed their astounding contents: the remains of an Anglo-Saxon funerary ship and a huge cache of seventh-century royal treasure. In southern ...

The term Anglo-Saxon is a relatively modern one. It refers to settlers from the German regions of Angeln and Saxony, who made their way over to Britain after the fall of the Roman Empire around AD ...