There are moments in history where a great deal hangs in the balance, meaning that if things had turned out slightly differently, the history which followed would be very different. In the history of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A disconcerting gaze: Alfred the Great at Wantage - Greg Balfour-Evans/Alamy Tucked away in the corner of Oxfordshire, with a ...

In the stormy 890s, King Alfred the Great faces his final and most intense Viking threat. After years of uneasy peace, Hastein the Viking leads multiple armies into Wessex, Mercia, and Wales, testing ...

Æthelstan, crowned in 925, was the first true king of England but remains overshadowed by Alfred the Great and later rulers. A new biography highlights his military triumphs, legal innovations, and ...

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The first monarch to rule over what would later become Great Britain was King Alfred the Great, who was crowned as the King of England in 871 A.D. There wouldn't be a British monarch per se until 1707 ...