Lindisfarne, or Holy Island, has 1,500 years of recorded history and remains as popular as ever with pilgrims of all kinds. Clive Aslet takes a look at its history, and tells the tale of how Country ...

Sometime around the turn of the 8th century, on Lindisfarne, a windswept island off the English coast in Northumbria, a monk by the name of Eadfrith sits down and sharpens his quill. He dips it into ...

The board game piece believed to be from the early Viking raids was discovered by archeologists in a ditch on Lindisfarne. British archaeologists have announced the discovery of a rare board game ...

Once there was a mighty power in the North. That great kingdom was called Northumbria and, as the name suggests, it was the Anglo-Saxon state that occupied the land north of the Humber. Its capital ...

EVIL portents in the year 793 preceded a seaborne raid of Lindisfarne, an island off the coast of the medieval Kingdom of Northumbria. It would mark the start of the Viking era in England. Today marks ...

Vikings: Why did the Vikings raid and pillage? Why did they invade other countries? VIKINGS season 6 is expected to be coming to History US and Amazon Prime this November. Ahead of the final series, ...