WINCHESTER has often “dined out” on the assertion that it was the first capital of England. It’s a fair claim: after all, it was here that Alfred the Great, who drew together the Saxon kingdoms ...

Never mind who shot JR. In the days when Dallas was the warm-up act for Sportscene, the old gunslingers of British management ...

‘”Yes” they’d say. “We have Wankers on tap!”’ You see nothing funny in Randy as a first name or Bender as a surname; one of ...

The thing about history is it has already happened. The thing about lessons is we are never done learning them.

Supposedly the Church during the Middle Ages also refused to translate ... on Saxon Bibles. During the 9th and 10th centuries, King Alfred the Great and Archbishop Aelfric worked on Anglo-Saxon ...

If there is a book by a philosopher about language, you’d better read his ... whose love of syllables and Latin and Anglo-Saxon words appears in poetic usage. Larry McMurtry, whose manipulation of ...

Although the two professions operate very similarly, they are not exactly the same. A language translator works with written texts, while an interpreter works with the spoken language, according ...

"Oxford was one of many such defended towns built as a defensive network throughout the Anglo Saxon Kingdoms of Mercia and Wessex against the Vikings – its position on the Thames together with ...

Narrator: Excuse me. Yes, you! Would you like to learn about the Anglo-Saxons? Great! Well let’s start at the beginning. The Anglo-Saxon age in Britain was about 410 to 1066, and they originally ...

Although we call the language spoken by the Anglo-Saxons “Old English,” English speakers today won’t find much in common between it and the language we have now. More than 1000 years ago ...

The work at Oriel College found what is believed to be the original eastern line of defences around the former town, once part of a defensive network against the Vikings in the Anglo-Saxon ...