Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A disconcerting gaze: Alfred the Great at Wantage - Greg Balfour-Evans/Alamy Tucked away in the corner of Oxfordshire, with a ...

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Alfred the Great became king at the worst possible moment. Viking armies had overrun most of England, crushing kingdoms one by one and leaving Wessex as the last holdout. Alfred faced repeated defeats ...

There are moments in history where a great deal hangs in the balance, meaning that if things had turned out slightly differently, the history which followed would be very different. In the history of ...