The Great Heathen Army wanted everything ... This clip is suitable for teaching History at KS2 and KS3 in England, Second Level (Scotland) and KS1, KS2 and KS3 in (Northern Ireland).

And while the churchyard of St Wystan's Church, in Repton, has witnessed centuries of history ... and their most terrible iteration, the Great Heathen Army. Cat Jarman St Wystan's sits next ...

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, the collection of annals in Old English, recorded that the “great heathen army” arrived in 865. Over 15 years, battles were fought in the kingdoms of East Anglia ...