For a brief moment in medieval England, a poor boy stood at the centre of a royal rebellion and wore a crown meant for kings.

In the Middle Ages, England emerged as one of the most influential and powerful kingdoms in Europe – a far cry from its desolate, devastated state after the collapse of the Roman Empire. Over the ...

Æthelstan became the first King of the English in 927 by uniting previously independent kingdoms. The book "The First King of England" by David Woodman details the formation of the English kingdom.

The story of the making of England is often represented as a battleground between the English and the Vikings, with waves of plunder, conquest and combat. Of the multiple English kingdoms, only one, ...

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Jan Dítĕ (Ivan Barnev) is a little guy — short in stature, and short on political awareness and social conscience as well. He’s just someone who wants to get rich as quickly as possible, which in the ...