Mercia : The Rise and Fall of a Kingdom

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Many people know about Wessex, the `Last Kingdom` of the Anglo-Saxons to fall to the Northmen, but another kingdom, Mercia, once enjoyed supremacy over not only Wessex, but all of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. At its zenith Mercia controlled what is now Birmingham and London - and the political, commercial paramountcy of the two today finds echoes in the past.Those interested in the period will surely have heard of Penda, Offa, and AEthelflaed, Lady of the Mercians - but remarkably there is no singl

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