Anglo-Saxon was a way to distinguish genteel old-money types, such as nativist Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, from members of inferior races who had names such as, well, McCarthy.

Following centuries of disuse after the Norman Conquest, the term Anglo-Saxon reappeared in the late 16th century in antiquarian literature to refer to pre-Conquest peoples in England.

Media Major UK university to remove term 'Anglo-Saxon' to 'decolonize' curriculum Such overhauls are allegedly aimed at 'undercutting nationalist narratives’ a source told UK's The Telegraph ...

Long before medieval crowns and royal courts, England’s earliest kings traced their bloodline to a god—Woden. From Hengest and Horsa to the royal houses of Anglo-Saxon England, his name echoed through ...

A medievalist explains what "Anglo-Saxon" really means—and why scholars are still concerned, even as the "America First Caucus" hits pause.

What the ‘Anglo Saxon traditions’ controversy says about our current moment April 20, 2021 More than 4 years ago Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) in February. (Susan Walsh/AP) ...

'Anglo-Saxon' is being weaponized by the far-right." "And here's a resource on the term 'Anglo-Saxon' and why it's a racist dog-whistle, inaccurate and generally sucks balls," Rambaran-Olm said in ...

News has just come down from the U.K. Telegraph that the venerable dons of the Cambridge University (est. 1209) Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic History — apparently suffering from a ...

Marjorie Taylor Greene was readying her assault, like that legendary Anglo-Saxon warrior Canute the Great at Assandun. The QAnon-friendly first-term Georgia congresswoman, who was banned from any ...

An Anglo-Saxon warrior king was buried within a wooden ship at Sutton Hoo 1,400 years ago in East Anglia in England. Now, a team is reconstructing the iconic ship, discovered during a 1939 ...

The most famous Anglo-Saxon riddles are the Exeter Book riddles, a collection of about 90 dating to around A.D. 1000; they appear here in crisp new translation from Old English.

The 90-foot-long (27-meter) wooden ship was dragged half a mile (0.8 kilometer) from the River Deben when an Anglo-Saxon warrior king died 1,400 years ago.