At the instigation of by Pope Gregory I, Augustine led a mission to England in 596 AD, probably as the result of a request of Æthelberht, king of Kent whose wife was Christian. He arrived In 597 ...

The conquest of England was a task far greater than anything the Vikings had ever attempted before. England was divided into four powerful, well-organised kingdoms: Northumbria, East Anglia ...

On 22 March 871, West Saxon forces met the incoming Viking invasion, and a brutal battle ... whose vision inspired the formation of England. Less is known about the warrior bishop Heahmund ...