Local children have been drawing King Athelstan, with some including the long blonde hair he was said to have had The lower floor of the museum has used some of its usual permanent exhibition ...

The coin shows Athelstan in a crown with an inscription round the edges. A rare coin showing a king who ruled more than a thousand years ago has been bought by the museum bearing his name.

The route takes its name from the first King of a united England, Athelstan, a Christian ruler who chose Malmesbury as his capital and was buried in Malmesbury Abbey after his death in 939AD.

In the hit series Vikings, fans witnessed the friendship between Ragnar Lothbrok and Athelstan (George Blagden), a Saxon monk he encountered during his first raid to the west, in Northumbria ...

In 937, at the battle of Brunanburh, Athelstan led a force drawn from Britain and defeated an invasion by the king of Scotland in alliance with the Welsh and Danes from Dublin. Athelstan was a ...

The dates of the later coins show that the hoard was buried after the Anglo Saxon king, Athelstan, conquered Northumbria in AD 927. Uniting the two kingdoms, Athelstan was the first king who could ...