To King Alfred he is the ‘lord of battles’. He has gained riches, loyal men and a beloved wife. But…

The year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish Kingdom to the north and the Saxon…

The year is 878 and Wessex is free from the Vikings. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord, helped…

The Danes have been defeated at Cynuit, but the triumph of the English is not fated to last long. The…

This is the story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King…