According to the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM), which bought the penny for an undisclosed sum, it was made in Exeter in ...

HE defended the country against Viking conquests and now King Alfred is being pampered with a wash and wax.

Plans have been submitted to install a bronze statue near Tynwald Hill to recognise a Viking ruler credited with playing a key role in establishing the Isle of Man's legal system.

After the death of Aethelwulf on 'Vikings', his sons are the obvious choices to take his place. Alfred becomes the king over his brother.

Alfred StatueWINCHESTER, Sept. 20.—In the presence of a vast concourse of delegates and oficials, Lord Rosebery to-day unveiled the great statue of King Alfred. In the course of his eulogy of ...

Plans have been submitted to install a bronze statue near Tynwald Hill to recognise a Viking ruler credited with playing a key role in establishing the Isle of Man's legal system.

His father was king of Wessex, but by the end of Alfred's reign his coins referred to him as 'King of the English'. He fought the Vikings and then made peace so that English and Vikings settled ...

King Alfred’s three older brothers had all briefly held the throne before Alfred was elevated to the kingship in 871. Behind the political conflicts of the day there was a religious contest.

Later in his life the young King Alfred had to hide from the Vikings on a marshy island called Athelney, in Somerset. A famous story tells how, while sheltering in a cowherd's hut, the king got a ...