Historical men and women

20 th November is the saint’s day of Edmund the Martyr, the only English monarch to be declared a Christian martyr unt...

The Isle of Wight lies off the south coast of England, separated from Hampshire by two narrow waterways, namely The Solent and Spithea...

Scandals in high places are nothing new. This is King Aethelbald of Wessex (western and southern England), who shocked 9 th century ...

King Alfred of Wessex, who died in 899, is the only English king to whom is accorded the title “Great”, but perhaps his grandson Athe...

Women did not have as hard a time in Anglo-Saxon high society as they were to do in later ages. An example of the respect that was sh...