I was not around in 1974 to witness the first television outing of Alan Clarke's Penda's Fen. Broadcast only seven years ...

King Penda was widely considered the most powerful Anglo-Saxon King of the time. Since then, the ancient haul dating back to between AD600 and AD650 has become an international sensation.

If you sat down to watch television on the evening of Thursday the 21st of March 1974, this is what you would have seen on BBC1: at 8:30pm was James Burke’s The Burke Special, followed by the Nine ...

In the year 633, the pagan King Penda of Mercia invaded the kingdom of Northumbria in northern England, which had become Christian a short time before. In the same year the saintly king Edwin of ...