Searching for the Stafford Burh – Part II There are over a 1,000 known archaeological sites within this area of Staffordshire, ranging fro...

The Burh: Instrument of War Following the decisive English victory over the Great Heathen Army of Guthrum at the Battle of Ethandun, probab...

Staffordshire 913  are celebrating 1100 years of the founding of the Stafford Burh and planning a day of talks by experts on the Saxon peri...

As my home town of Stafford celebrates 1100 years since its founding by Æthelflæd, The Lady of Mercians this summer, it is with perfect tim...

"913. Here God helping, Æthelflæd, Lady of Mercians, went with all the Mercians to Tamworth and then built the stronghold there early i...

A celebration of 1,100 years since Æthelflæd the Lady of the Mercians, daughter of King Alfred the Great, fortified Stafford as a defended ...

Merlin and Stonehenge Part VI In the stories of Preiddeu Annwn , Culhwch and Olwen and The Second Branch of the Mabinogion we see the co...