The next Total War game isn't quite the era-spanning epic you might expect, but a more focused game that looks at Britain's history in the late 9th century. It was announced last year as Total War ...

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to be ...

A Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia is a new historical strategy game in the A Total War Saga series. The year is 878 AD, the embattled English king Alfred the Great has mounted a heroic defence at ...

One of the most famous Anglo-Saxon kings was Alfred, one of the only kings in British history to be called 'Great'. His father was king of Wessex, but by the end of Alfred's reign his coins referred ...

Michael Wood argues that the most important and influential British kings were a father, son and grandson who lived over a thousand years ago during the age of the Vikings.

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