From the first raid at Portland in 789 to Alfred's victory at Edington in 878, a year-by-year account of how Wessex survived the Viking Age.

Learn to recognise Anglo-Saxon script, common abbreviations, and legal formulas in Wessex charters, with practical steps for reading original diplomas and later copies.

From winter earthworks in raking light to July's Festival of Archaeology, a month-by-month guide to digs, open days and prehistoric landscapes across Wessex.

A plain-English walk through four centuries of West Saxon kings, from the shadowy Cerdic to Alfred, with the family ties and turning points that shaped England.

Wessex battlefields are contested ground. A practical guide to avoiding misidentified sites, ignoring historic landscape, and mistaking legend for evidence.

Plan a single day around Winchester's Anglo-Saxon sites, from the Old Minster's footprint and the cathedral's mortuary chests to Hyde Abbey, with timings and access notes.

Wessex and Mercia shaped Anglo-Saxon England in different ways — one coastal, patient and legal; the other landlocked, dominant and heavily armed.