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The Story Of Athelstan, The Unlikely Ruler Who Became The First King Of England
And as a young man, he sat at the elbow of his powerful paternal aunt, Æthelflæd, who ruled over the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of ...
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From a bearded female pharaoh to a rampaging warrior queen: history’s top four female power players
More about her below. Photo: Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images By Her Hand follows the story of Freda, a farm girl in the tenth-century English kingdom of Mercia. After her home is ...
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Staffordshire Gold Hoard
in the late seventh century an unknown party traveled along an old Roman road that cut across an uninhabited heath fringed by forest in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia. Possibly they were ...
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Tottenham survive extra time, ‘torpedo’ long throws and Tamworth heroics in FA Cup thriller
Tamworth is not short of lore, having been a royal centre for the Kingdom of Mercia until the Vikings invaded. On Sunday, we came mightily close to another historic chapter in the town’s epic tale.