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The Story Of Athelstan, The Unlikely Ruler Who Became The First King Of England
In 927, Athelstan became the first king to rule over all of England — and it hadn't been an easy journey. Though he was the ...
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The formidable Anglo-Saxon kingdom that modern Britain forgot
Offa in the Benefactors Book (1380) of St Albans, an abbey he founded Credit: Alamy As unjustly forgotten as Mercia itself are the kingdom’s redoubtable royal women, and Adams rightly stresses ...