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The festival will welcome best-selling authors, poets and playwrights to the county and pay tribute to one of Britain’s most famous writers.
Seven Kings Must Die pits half-brothers Æthelstan and Ælfweard against each other in its opening act: but how true to history is their clash for the crown? Historical consultant Ryan Lavelle considers what real history tells us about Ælfweard, and why Æthelstan may not have been first choice for king of Wessex…
Our cathedrals are treasure-houses of beautiful art and artefacts, from the largest medieval world map to a millennium-old sundial
The document, known as the Textus Roffensis, predates the Magna Carta of 1215. It was compiled in the early 1120s by a monk of St Andrew's Priory at Rochester Cathedral in Kent.
Two recent studies have concluded that Anglo-Saxon royalty had a mainly vegetarian diet, and the meat-rich feasts were occasional and hosted by the peasants!