At age 7, Ethelred the Unready became King of the English in 978. What is the story behind your ... [+] company's unready leaders? (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images) These distinctions are ...

There they tormented that unlucky king Ethelred Unræd—a nickname meaning not so much "unready" as "clueless" (this is the same Ethelred who was tormented by Olaf Trygvesson—see "Be Christian ...

5 minute read Edward, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, was born in Islip, Oxfordshire, sometime between 1002 and 1005AD, the eighth son of King Ethelred 'the Unready' and Emma. He was driven into ...

The Encomium Emmae Reginae is, as its title suggests, a political tract in praise of Queen Emma, daughter of Duke Richard I of Normandy, wife of King Ethelred the Unready from 1002 to 1016, and wife ...

A hoard of 1,000-year-old silver coins unearthed in Cumbria has formally been declared as treasure. An inquest at Cockermouth Coroners’ Court on Thursday heard that a man found the six coins in ...

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...

Michael Carnegie (Attila)Caroline Nelson (Princess Gwen)Kent Butterworth (King Ethelred)Parker Lane (Baldwyn)Patricia Israel (Matilda)Gabi Payn (Drag'n Queen)Mike Kazaleh (Sphinx Eyeball ...

A YOUNG girl says she didn’t stop a man sexually abusing her as she was too frightened of getting in trouble, a court heard. Timothy Hickey, 68, of Ethelred Gardens, Wickford, is standing trial ...

Paul Cavanagh (Ryan)Greta Nissen (Vanda Muroff)Sally Gray (Jill Manning)Bruce Seton (Roger Manning)Paul Blake (Ethelred Burke)Donald Calthrop (Nick)Dino Galvani (Josef)Fred Duprez (Burnes ...

There is nothing new about Englishmen paying foreigners not to attack them, as we and our allies are now doing in Afghanistan. We were doing that here in Oxfordshire more than a thousand years ago ...

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...