The Saxons — people from modern-day Scandinavia, Germany and France — eventually colonized Britain ... in the 1800s. This ...

George III, king of Great Britain and its colonies at the time of the American Revolution, has been maligned unfairly. During ...

pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to be ‘King of all England’. One story tells how King Cnut stood on the shore and commanded the sea to turn back.

From time to time, the strongest king would claim to be 'bretwalda', which meant ruler of all Britain. The Anglo-Saxons didn't have prisons. People found guilty of crimes were either executed or ...