By the 10th century, Northumbria was dwindling. It was divided into two parts: a Danish-controlled region centered on York and an Anglo-Saxon region ruled from Bamburgh in the north. It was within ...

Archaeologists in England have identified a near-complete Anglo-Saxon cave house. They say it might once have been the home of a king who became a saint.

Leeds was then part of the Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria, one of several kingdoms in England that were united by Athelstan, the first king of all of England, in the 10th century.

Northumbria, Mercia, and East Anglia were Anglian kingdoms, Kent was a Jutish kingdom, and Wessex, Essex, and Sussex were the kingdoms of the western, eastern, and southern Saxons.

On the cusp of the Cheviot Hills and Northumberland National Park, a new museum dedicated to the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria has opened in the market town of Wooler, aiming to breathe life ...

Copied to clipboard Beneath medieval Bamburgh Castle on England’s northeast coast lie the remains of a royal Anglo-Saxon fortress that was once the seat of the kings of Northumbria.

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. In 410 the Roman ...

Northumbria was one of the most important kingdoms in Anglo-Saxon England’s history, extending all the way from the Irish Sea to the North Sea at its peak.

Researchers believe this is an indication it was made in the powerful Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria, in current-day northern England and southern Scotland.

An excavation has revealed an elaborate hall in the east of England of early Anglo-Saxon kings, which was used for feasting by monarchs and their warriors roughly 1,400 years ago.

Aella was the King of Northumbria and his reign is mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon chronicle and various Norse sagas but despite this, very little is known about his life.