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Cnut (British Library, Stowe 944, f.6) On this day 1000 years ago, Cnut defeated Edmund Ironside at the Battle of Assandun, the final b...

Harold Godwineson takes the English crown ( CUL MS Ee.3.59, f.30v ) We are currently right in the midst of commemoration season for the...

Henry I and Matilda, in a 14th-century genealogical roll ( BL Royal MS. 14 B VI ) My latest column for History Today can be read onlin...

Harvesting sheaves in the Eadwine Psalter ( Cambridge, Trinity College, R.17.1 , f.232), illustrating Psalm 125/6 In some early medieva...

The Battle of Sherston in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ( BL Cotton MS Tiberius B IV, f.67 ) This week marks the 1000th anniversary of one ...