The team from the University of Reading first discovered the Anglo-Saxon site in Cookham ... of the layout and social conditions of the monastery". Prof Gabor Thomas says "there is still a ...

So much for Augustine. Aidan to the rescue! He was determined to go out and convert the Anglo-Saxons. He set up a monastery on Lindisfarne in 634 and from there did something amazing, something ...

The newly-converted Anglo-Saxons would have recognised the plant or tree image because it had a sacred place in their pagan religion. This sculpture shows how closely linked the monastery was to ...

The church we see today was begun by Henry III in 1245. It’s one of the most important Gothic buildings in the country, and has the medieval shrine of an Anglo-Saxon saint at its heart. At Westminster ...

Following the custom set by his father William was crowned in Westminster Abbey on Sunday 26th September 1087. But there is no record of who attended although the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that ...