A British monk called Gildas wrote in Latin in around AD530. However, he doesn't write much about the Anglo-Saxon settlements, since he is too busy writing about the British tribes fighting each ...

The newly-converted Anglo-Saxons would have recognised the plant ... as symbolised by their most famous monk, The Venerable Bede (c.673-735). When this object was made, The Venerable Bede ...

Revellers with drinking horns surround the last Anglo-Saxon king, who was just two years away from a painful death following an arrow to the eye. Now the famous, rambunctious feast scene in the ...

Today, Crowland contains the ruins of a medieval abbey, but long ago, the area was once the home of a hermitage belonging to Saint Guthlac, a monk who lived during the Anglo-Saxon period.