Lindisfarne Island is a bit of a tourist mecca. The castle that King Henry VIII built after destroying the Roman Catholic monastery in the 1500s looks spectacularly dramatic. It’s busy with ...

In 793 AD, Viking raiders stormed the monastery at Lindisfarne—an event that sent shockwaves through medieval Europe. In this video, we explore what happened that day, why it mattered so much, and how ...

And Lindisfarne, where these works of art were created, it was a major monastery. It was an economic centre. It was a royal site.

On June 8, 793, a fleet of pirates came ashore on the northeast coast of England and sacked the Lindisfarne monastery, slaughtering monks, burning buildings, and looting sacred objects.

Scandinavia's entrance into civilized Europe was swift and dramatic. On June 8, 793, a fleet of pirates came ashore on the northeast coast of England and sacked the Lindisfarne monastery ...

In 793, Norse raiders stormed the holy island of Lindisfarne - burning, killing, and looting. It wasn’t the first raid on England, but it marked the brutal birth of the Viking Age.

Vikings: A History by Neil Oliver (Phoenix Paperback, £9.99); An Onslaught of Spears: the Danish Conquest of England by Jeffrey James (The History Press £16.99) OKAY – so you haven’t been ...