Each king ruled a kingdom and led a small army ... the strongest king would claim to be 'bretwalda', which meant ruler of all Britain. The Anglo-Saxons didn't have prisons.

British nationality seems to be, rather than immaterial, something completely material, summed up in the existence of a bit of paper bearing His Majesty’s stamp.  In 1707, following the English ...

Mercia saw the rise of kings, Christianity and our very identity, as Max Adams reveals in this genius history, The Mercian Chronicles ...

Saxons may well have been numerous in Britain before the fall of the Empire. By about AD 490, they were establishing their own kingdoms on the island, in Kent, Sussex, Wessex and East Anglia.

In pre-Roman Britain, there existed a status quo born largely through co-operation between the dominant powers in the continent and the tribal kingdoms of Britain. According to the historian ...