Alfred the Great was once a poster-boy for male gallantry, but he fell out of favour in the last century. Now he is ripe for a comeback ...

King Alfred the Great rebuilt his kingdom from ... but the creation of a united England. In this series, Charlie Taylor discovers more about the man who has become known as 'the Great'.

King Alfred hiding in the swamp from the savage Danes yet dreaming of uniting England as a Christian nation ... and much more united than ever before.” Of course, Great Britain might not ...

Alfred the Great is perhaps the most famous ... He is widely considered to be the first king of a united England. In the 700s, a monk called the Venerable Bede who lived in Northumbria wrote ...

Athelstan rose to become England’s first king in the ... was born around 894 C.E. to Edward the Elder, king of the ...