In 1066 there were two invasions of England, a Viking and a Norman invasion. The Vikings were defeated but the Normans succeeded in conquering England, bringing to an end Anglo-Saxon England.

In “Embers of the Hands,” the historian Eleanor Barraclough looks beyond the soap-opera sagas to those lost in the cracks of ...

A lost Viking army which was a "key part" of the creation of England may have been identified ... from the 200 years previous to the Viking invasion. But new research has turned this on its ...