THE BONE CHESTS: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons

A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR‘A diligent historian and a superb writer’THE TIMESFrom bioarchaeologist and bestselling author of River Kings, a gripping new history of the making of England as a nation, told through six bone chests, stored for over a thousand years in Winchester Cathedral.In December 1642, during the Civil War, Parliamentarian troops stormed the magnificent cathedral, intent on destruction. Reaching the presbytery, its beating heart, the soldiers searched out ten beautifully d...See More