1

Dunstan’s Deliverance

By Roger of Wendover

In 978, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dunstan, was being battered in a stormy meeting when he — along with England’s rich monastic heritage — had a miraculous escape.

2

The Martyrdom of King Edward

By Roger of Wendover

After the death of King Edgar, powerful court factions struggled for power by hiding behind his two sons, twelve-year-old Edward and his younger step-brother Ethelred.

3

Edgar and the Ship of Kings

By Florence of Worcester

Following a very grand coronation at Bath in 973, King Edgar travelled to Chester and showed his people that he had become a mighty lord indeed.

4

Edgar’s Peace

By James William Edmund Doyle

Edgar, King of England from 959 to 975, was surnamed ‘The Peaceful’ by a grateful public because of the care he took to defend person and property.

5

Short Shrift

By William of Malmesbury

Kenneth II, tenth-century King of Scots, once cracked a joke about Edgar, King of England, being on the short side. He very soon wished he hadn’t.

6

The Kings of Northumbria

By Clay Lane

Out of a restless alliance between two 6th century kingdoms came a civilisation that defined Englishness.